You can learn a lot about a country from its signs. Last month, during an eight-day study tour of Liberia, I discovered that shop names, posters, advertisements, and graffiti told the story of the place and its problems more graphically than any article or guidebook.

The daunting challenges to Liberia's...

From now on, I can never say I didn't know. This, thanks to Hagit Ofran, director of Peace Now's "Settlement Watch," who spends four hours schlepping us around East Jerusalem to see Palestinian properties that have been expropriated by the Israeli government or by Jewish settlers. We're a six-member delegation...

Half the women I sent the link to cried when they watched the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent and I think I know why.

Given its nearly eight million hits thus far, you've probably seen her, the matronly lady all decked out in that mother-of-the-bride...

Though no longer First Lady, Hillary Clinton is still a wife and there's the rub. As have many other female politicians before her, Senator Clinton has discovered that a husband can be a political liability. The events of the last few weeks recall what one cynic told me months ago:...