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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been accused in recent days of padding her foreign policy resume while First Lady, admitted today that she may have exaggerated about an encounter she said she had with al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998.

In an appearance on NBC's Meet...

Now I am alone. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his...

Here I am, sitting at my computer in our comfortable apartment in Manhattan, looking at the beautiful skyline and Central Park. Yet just a few days ago, unbelievably, we were in North Korea, a country that comedians might describe as Albania without the glitz. Except that North Korea is no...

Here's an irony for ya: Yesterday, the New York Philharmonic performed in Pyongyang, the Asian epicenter of the Axis of Evil. It was the selfsame day that Senators Obama and Clinton held their 20th debate.

In a previous dust-up -- back before The Narrowing when we had Kucinich...

File Under: Rock and Roll Diplomacy. According to the Associated Press, a North Korean diplomat confirmed that "officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the communist state." So the good Mr. Clapton must decide whether to take the gig or not. If he does,...

We're here.

After months of anticipation, we landed 36 hours ago in Pyongyang, North Korea. The purpose? Ostensibly, to attend the New York Philharmonic concert at the invitation of the North Korean Ministry of Culture. But the real reason was to witness history.

As to the concert, it was a...

On Thursday the New York Philharmonic heads to Pyongyang, notwithstanding the strained diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea. Hopefully, cultural diplomacy will offer new inroads where traditional diplomacy has failed, and eventually lead to restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two nations.

The United States...

Former President Bill Clinton is behaving "like a madman" as he campaigns for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), and needs to get control over his erratic outbursts, North Korean President Kim Jong-Il said today.

While the reclusive Mr. Kim rarely comments on U.S. politics, the North Korean president...

According to the New York Times, President Bush has sent a personal letter to Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator the president previously called a "tyrant" and a leader of the so-called "Axis of Evil."

In the letter, Mr. Bush reportedly offers North Korea the prospect of normalized relations...

One day after a National Intelligence Estimate revealed that Iran halted its nuclear arms program in 2003, North Korean president Kim Jong-Il ejected Iran from the Axis of Evil, calling them "not evil enough."

A visibly furious Kim called a press conference in Pyongyang today to excoriate the Iranians as...

Dennis Kucinich is pretty short. So short that his website even says he is "not that short." And, when I called his office to ask if he would be interviewed for my book, no one ever called me back. If he were tall, would he be hiding from me, a...