The trinity of terrorist strategy is efficiency, cost-effectiveness and impact. Impact is the hardest to gauge.

Sometimes, headlines pack too much punch to bear gracefully. But jotting down your thoughts can give you a leg up.

Italy has many defects when it comes to race and immigration, but not on the scale of France.

The United States, says a White House insider, should broadcast a global peril known so far only to a select few.

Rehearse cool stuff to say about yourself long enough and the mirror eventually cops an attitude. “Whatever,” it says.

George W. Bush seemed immune to scandal. Second-term risks? What risks?

If secular Saddam is smug it because Iraq’s current state of affairs rationalizes the intentions of his tyranny.

The flu terrifies because it’s familiar, the perfect harbor for vicarious worry, both imaginable and medieval.

Rome had a peculiar effect on the British men I once knew. It appeared to operate in a guilt-free zone.

Mastodontic. Plethora. Sagacious. Words are first passage to adulthood.

New U.S. Ambassador to Italy Ronald Spogli is not just another Bush Administration bonus baby. Anything but.