Editorial

The Mideast Peace Process: No Plan for Talks

More drift and recriminations are surely ahead unless President Obama comes up with a way to get the parties into serious talks. A September deadline is looming.

Editorial

How the Other Half Lives, Still

American-born children of illegal immigrants are pushed into the shadows alongside their parents and suffer steep consequences.

Editorial

End of the Line

The Bosnian Serb general behind the Srebrenica massacre is in custody. The arrest should be a warning to other butchers that they, too, will be caught.

Editorial

Reject the Tax Cap

A cap on New York property taxes would devastate schools and is no substitute for leadership.

At the G-8 Summit, Africa Will Be Heard

By ABDOULAYE WADE

Times have changed. International investors appear to find countries like Senegal to be a better bet than Europe's laggards.

Obama, Poland and Russia

By MARK BRZEZINSKI

The Poles are in need of U.S. reassurance as Warsaw pursues rapprochement with Moscow.

Asian Disharmony

By PHILIP BOWRING

Asians would find it difficult to agree on any candidate to lead the I.M.F., let alone one acceptable to the West.

The Unchanged Path to Mideast Peace

By JIMMY CARTER

As Barack Obama stated, the 1967 borders remain the basis of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

China Is Key to America's Afghan Endgame

By ANATOL LIEVEN

Pakistan's instability is as troubling a problem for Beijing as it is for Washington.

Op-Ed Contributor

The Liberal Whom Time Forgot

By Rick Perlstein

It’s the 100th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey’s birth, and no one seems to have noticed.

Demographic Tectonics

By PIERRE BUHLER

The U.N. projects huge population growth in Africa. Is the world ready?

Op-Ed Contributor

The Elaine’s That I Knew

By BRIAN McDONALD

Behind the scenes at a dearly departed New York celebrity hangout.

Op-Ed Contributor

Squandering Medicare’s Money

By RITA F. REDBERG

Why does Medicare spend so much for procedures and devices on patients who get no benefit from them?