I want to commend the Administration for conducting a sober, serious, and hopeful conference on Middle East peace today. The task ahead is difficult, but the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue launched by today's conference creates new possibilities that the obstacles will be overcome. One thing is absolutely clear: there can be no...

Tomorrow morning the House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on the so-called Mexico City policy. Also known as the Global Gag Rule, it places restrictions on health care workers overseas that they would never have to face if they were based in the United States. The hearing will...

In New York at the United Nations last week, the United States shot itself in the foot. How? The Bush administration sacrificed profound American interests and values in order to appease its ideological base when it announced that it will not seek a seat in the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The options for using diplomacy to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons are running out. Unless the international community acts quickly and decisively, the world's chief terrorist state will soon possess the greatest weapon of terror ever created.

We can take a critical first step on February 2, at an...