I can think of 40 million reasons why Barack Obama could win. Here's the first one: Jimmy Carter. It was a little more than 30 years ago since this country elected a liberal Democrat to the highest office in the land. And the country soon entered a period of economic malaise and weakness. ...more

November 1, 2008

Is Muslim anti-Americanism driven by our culture or our foreign policy? Do they hate us for "who we are," or "what we do?" ...more

July 28, 2008

About 125,000 Turks, mostly women, denounced the government Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at universities in the mainly Muslim but secular nation. ...more

February 3, 2008

that a government be democratic or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? ...more

November 24, 2007