International | Myanmar President Thein Sein meets in Washington today with
President Barack Obama and contends in a
Washington Post
interview that the army he has presided over has not engaged in
pogroms—contrary to multiple human…
Dollars and Sense |
Big Apple ripe. I spent a couple of days in New York this
week, and I can tell you that with the stock markets at all time
highs, the Big Apple is…
Middle East |
With foreign fighters invading the rebellion, millions of Syrians
fleeing civil war, and a brutal president determined to hang on,
good guys and workable…
International |
Northeast Nigeria is in a state of emergency after the country’s
president, Goodluck Jonathan, announced Islamic extremists control
some of the area’s…
International |
The seamstress who survived for 17 days buried inside the
Bangladesh garment factory collapse told the BBC: “Even in my
wildest dreams I did not…
Religious Liberty |
Saudi Arabian officials have sentenced two men to flogging and
prison for helping a women convert to Christianity and escape the
country. The uproar started…
Libya |
When the deputy chief of mission in Libya gives an anguished
account of last September’s attack for the first time—as Gregory
Hicks did last week—a…
International |
Pakistanis returned to high office Nawaz Sharif, after
parliamentary elections this weekend gave his party a
commanding new hold on power. Sharif’s…
Religion |
In the 1890s American pragmatist William James, brother of novelist
Henry, tried peyote in his attempt to discern some varieties of
religious faith. In the…
Pakistan |
Pakistan’s election today reminds me that the United States made a
big mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan by pushing democracy rather
than liberty. As the…
International |
More on the UN report on Somalia’s famine, which killed more than a
quarter-million Somalis in less than two years. We all watched it
unfold, made worse by…
Religion |
Iranian authorities released American pastor Saeed Abedini from
solitary confinement today after forcing him to spend the week of
his birthday in a “small…
