Hamid Karzai tolerates corruption, accommodates warlords, is not doing enough against drug trafficking and looks the other way when it comes to the Taliban.
Only two countries in the world have failed to ratify The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia and the United States, which drafted more of its provisions than any other government.
Let's face it, the Newsweek cover is arguably a fair representation of Palin. She didn't get where she is today (wherever that is) by being a highly experienced, overachieving policy wonk.
When people dismiss Sarah Palin out of hand, I keep thinking one thing -- remember the last politician we scoffed at as not even close to being competent enough for the White House?
I can't say that Hillary's coffee offer came off as completely disingenuous, but it did smack a bit of diplomacy.
Five minutes into yesterday's Oprah extravaganza with Sarah Palin, I messaged Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager: "So how did you know Bristol was pregnant before it was announced?"
The US must now respond. It must demand the release of brave campaigners for their rights. Moreover, the US must address the root cause of Morocco's abuses -- its occupation of someone else's country, the Western Sahara.
I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.
With the appointment of Rajiv Shah to head USAID, it's deja-vu all over again for the Obama administration. Welcome to Camelot redux, the 1960's re-engineered for the 2010s.
Last Tuesday, President Obama named Dr. Rajiv Shah to head the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development. He is the type of leader who can reassert our enduring values of compassion around the world.
Stranger things than a Sarah Palin comeback have happened. George W. Bush beat Democrats twice. Are people really going to argue that Bush is smarter than Sarah?
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.
All of Newsmax's efforts have gone for naught, undone last week as Kerik pleaded guilty to eight charges, including tax fraud and lying to White House officials.
They say talk is cheap, but is it possible that recent comments by Hillary Clinton are signaling a radical change in US foreign policy?
In light of the Honduran elections, Obama's representative decided that might be a good time to ridicule all the Latin American democracies.
You would never expect attorneys to hold a serious meeting in a McDonald's, but that is where I found myself last Friday when I met with three public interest attorneys, all recently disbarred, in Beijing.
What difference could it possibly make whether Michelle Obama's approval rating plunged over 10 percent in the past couple of months, or that she even...
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
At the end of October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated the unprecedented overturning of a coup through dialogue. That assessment has now proved naïve.
By Julia Fromholz Three weeks ago, the Obama administration announced its comprehensive policy toward Sudan, relying on both incentives and pressures...
