Strip Tina Fey of her Mark Twain Award. The prestigious comedy prize has been awarded to the wrong person. Not because Fey isn't funny -- at times, she is roaringly so -- but rather because she has failed, catastrophically, in creating a popular comedy that comments on American race relations...

Copenhagen -- Thousands of people disillusioned with the United Nations climate change conference here engaged in mass civil disobedience on Wednesday, attempting to break into the conference to hold a "People's Assembly" that was to present a more ambitious set of goals for cutting carbon emissions, and emphasize the disproportionate...

The Obama administration has an 'Israel problem,' and its recent focus on freezing Israeli settlement construction is a far cry from the solution, according to the Israel Policy Forum's report released last Monday, which distills the opinions of a distinguished group of some twenty former and current Israeli officials,...

Health care reform in America stands unrivaled as the most effective prism through which to understand the emergence of a new political landscape in 2009.

The stakes are as high as they can be. Discussion about health care -- even if opaque from a policy perspective -- incites a number...

"We're not having a strategy of hope," declared Major General J. Scott Gration at an intimate roundtable discussion with bloggers about Sudan at the State Department Friday morning. Gration, President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, spoke with calm optimism about the role of the United States in the fate...