Europe

Every year, as we approach the 5th of May, stores and companies begin to promote Cinco de Mayo in their storefronts and through their advertisements. There are office parties, full of festive decorations, and children at school might have the opportunity to take a swing at a piñata. This splendor...

Europeans are feeling pretty smug lately, with their sturdy currency, "health care," and rising rates of life expectancy, but there's one area where we kick their ass: American Christians read the bible a lot more often than European Christians do.

According to a new study by the Catholic Biblical...

John McCain went before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council yesterday morning to showcase his foreign policy credentials and convince Americans that he is the only candidate experienced enough to take that 3am telephone call. While Clinton and Obama are distracted by a pre-Pennsylvania primary food fight, McCain's address constituted...

The world may not quite be watching Iowa and New Hampshire this week, but the initial presidential contests are drawing significant interest in Europe, thanks in no little part to celebrity candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani.

After a couple of years of political transition...

Recently, I wrote about my own surprise that Barack Obama had not called together a policy or issue-oriented hearing in his role as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee/Subcommittee on Europe.

I followed this up with a piece...

The Times of London has picked up on the issue that Senator Obama has not convened a policy-related hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Europe and added to this something I reported yesterday --...

[originally published in Washington Post, Outlook section Sunday, October 7, 2007; Page B03]

In the global economy, today's winners can become tomorrow's losers in a twinkling, and vice versa. Not so long ago, American pundits and economic analysts were snidely touting U.S. economic superiority to the...