The attack yesterday on the Peshawar headquarters building of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence is deeply disturbing. After a series of militant assaults on military targets in the build-up to
For all its menace and fanfare, Eastern European communism, one of its countless chroniclers observed, left the theater of history on tiptoe. The simple, surprising end came 20 years ago, Nov. 9, 1989,
When US President Barack Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly
Shortly after the Fort Hood shootings in which the lives of 13 US Army personnel were senselessly wasted by a killing rampage by one of their own, a US radio commentator called me up for my take as
