For what it’s worth
The war in Gaza presents critical thinkers with keen and complex dilemmas, many brought to the fore by fierce anti-Israel [...]
No solace in yesteryears
Nostalgia is a congenital liar. It makes gilded that which was not. I take as examples my seventy-something Italian friends [...]
Bulletproof
In his near-desperate quest to regain the American presidency Donald Trump differs from many of his predecessors. He not only [...]
Lunatic campaign
Half a trip to the American lunatic fringe came with Donald Trump’s unlikely flirtation with the idea of running for [...]
A Rome memoir
In August 1968 my father ferried me from Washington to New York and deposited me on a nonstop Pan Am [...]
Global Kelley
Since writing about my former USA Today colleague Jack Kelley, a number of things have happened — all of them [...]
So Cool
Europeans toward the United States is not about American character or culture.
Whatever
Hey, approximation is bad policy except when it's the policy.
Dream On
Things were bad in 1968, until a few men in a spacecraft made an audacious spin around the moon.