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THE DOMESTIC terror alert jumps to Sept. 11 levels. Heathrow Airport is ringed by tanks. Duct tape and plastic sheeting disappear from Washington store shelves. Osama resurfaces. North Korea reopens [...]

THE WINDOW of legitimacy --that interval during which the United States could mass its forces around Iraq and prepare for war, ostensibly in the name of the United Nations --is [...]

THE BUSH POSITION on North Korea is in total collapse. In less than a month we have gone from 'tailored containment' to shoeless appeasement. It usually takes longer. It began [...]

I ONCE MET a physicist who as a child had been something of a chess prodigy. He loved the game and loved the role. He took particular delight in the [...]

THE LOTT FIASCO has had a clarifying effect on contemporary conservatism. Its three major strains --paleo, traditional, and neo -- have been thrown into rather sharp relief. The paleoconservatives, the [...]

IS ISLAM an inherently violent religion? A debate on this subject has received much attention in the United States. The question is absurd. It is like asking whether Christianity is [...]

It is an inspections regime that is intended to test his [Saddam's] willingness to cooperate, not to test the ability of Hans Blix ...to find something in Iraq. --Condoleezza Rice, [...]

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, in Congress assembled, have given President Bush the authority to use force to disarm Saddam Hussein. The president has delegated to Colin Powell the authority to negotiate [...]

ON SEPT. 12, President Bush went to the United Nations to make his case against Iraq. It has been more than a month now, and the United Nations has done [...]

'This nation is prepared to present its case against the Soviet threat to peace, and our own proposals for a peaceful world, at any time and in any forum --in [...]

WHENEVER I hear Sept. 11 referred to as just a tragedy, I wince. The San Francisco Earthquake was a tragedy. The Johnstown Flood was a tragedy. Hurricane Andrew was a [...]

YASER HAMDI, once a hapless Taliban soldier, has made the trajectory from capture in Afghanistan to captivity in Guantanamo to legal celebrity in the Norfolk Navy brig where he now [...]

'Bonds: Game can survive a strike.' -Newspaper headline, June 22 THE ALL-STAR GAME approaches, the players union is about to set a date for a strike. Barry Bonds is wrong. [...]

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH on the Middle East this week unveiled a radically new idea that goes far beyond the 'Arafat has to go' headlines. Of course Arafat has to go. [...]

AT A DINNER last year at the Russian Embassy, a senior Russian official expressed deep dismay that the Bush administration was preparing to eliminate large numbers of nuclear missiles without [...]

NATO is dead. Long live NATO. NATO died in Afghanistann - the very same place where that other top-heavy and obsolete multinational construction, the Soviet Union, expired. (History is not [...]