Search

The opera house in Damascus was a long time coming. Hafez al-Assad, the iron-willed military man who ruled Syria for three decades, was in power just a few years when [...]

The day they buried Yasir Arafat in the Ramallah fort that had become his prison, the most remarkable sight was not the thousands who brushed aside Palestinian security to swarm [...]

This is a story about fighting Palestinian chaos and corruption, about seeking to throw off Israeli occupation and build a democratic state of Palestine. It is about these things, because [...]

In his front-row seat in the Senate chamber, Strom Thurmond sits with mouth slackly agape. His thin, rust-colored hair is stretched back from the top of his head, so straight [...]

Inside the General Motors advanced design studios in Warren, Mich. -- past the security guards, past the sign reading ''no cameras or image-capturing devices,'' through two sets of locked doors [...]

As George W. Bush prepares to be inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States, those who have not studied him closely tend to divide into two camps: the [...]

When Elliot Lee Richardson worked at home in those days -- and when he was home and awake, he was generally working -- he sat in an easy chair in [...]

In the hills over Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, it was possible for a moment to believe that Republican Congressman James Rogan and Democratic State Senator Adam Schiff [...]

Q: Everyone seems to hate political ads. As a veteran of commercial advertising, what do you think are the worst sins of political advertising? Well, it's pretty abysmal, and it's [...]

So it turns out that Hillary Rodham Clinton is as voracious a listener as her husband. On tour in New York, she has displayed an intense style all her own, [...]

For months now, Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster who studies Americans with the discipline and delight of Darwin in the Gal1/3pagos, has been conducting a focus group of just one. [...]

Earlier this month, as the Republican contenders for president were bickering over who was the bigger meanie, I paid a visit to Greg Stevens, who was hard at work creating [...]

Any organization reflects its leader, as Al Gore says, and for most of last year his presidential campaign was the outward sign of an inward turmoil. At the beginning of [...]

Civilizations typically do not choose their own relics. A footprint in the mud, a shard of pottery, a terrified figure huddled beneath a downpour of volcanic ash -- such are [...]

Before you decide whether to seek the Presidency of these United States on the Reform Party ticket -- and they say they are interested if you are -- there are [...]

This is what James R. Van de Velde -- high-school student council president, cold-war diplomat, popular Yale political science lecturer -- did after night fell last Dec. 4, according to [...]