The crash of a U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter - and the grounding of the 700-plane fleet - is a reminder of the tough military budget choices America faces.

Even if we don't begrudge him the Louis Vuitton ad, it's sad to contemplate where Gorbachev's personal journey has taken him.

I can tell you there is nobody in politics remotely like John McCain.

History is full of leaders who once did much good, but whose ambitions took them too far on the road to perfidy.

The shift of large amounts of capital to developing countries over the past two decades has posed a major challenge to old ideas about foreign control of important national companies.

Bush may legitimately claim certain benefits from Guantánamo, but the costs have been high.

Across the two faiths, concepts of love of God and love of neighbor invariably differ.

Norman Mailer deserves to be read for his nonfiction and early novels, especially "The Naked and the Dead." New Yorkers can be thankful, however, that he never got a chance to appoint the police commissioner.