President Barack Obama must not allow the enormity of our nation's economic crisis to eclipse the very real and imminent dangers across the globe.
Rely on China for American foreign policy initiatives? Really? The recent New York Times Week in Review column, "Look Who's Mr. Fixit for a Fraught Age," written by Steven Lee Myers, points to China as the most important partner in American international relations today.
Despite the "lobster summit" held in Maine between Presidents Bush and Putin this past summer, no agreement was reached with Russia regarding the U.S.-proposed missile defense shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic.
In 2004, John Kerry was a distant third in the Iowa Caucus to Governor Howard Dean and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.
The image in Saturday's New York Times is simple: on the left is President Berdymuhammedov of Turkmenistan, the greatest producer of oil in the former Soviet bloc second only to Russia; on the right, President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
Albert Camus once wrote a short story, and then an expanded play, entitled "The Misunderstanding." In this story -- the plots of the play and short story are identical -- a boy becomes estranged from his mother and sister in a rural town somewhere.
I write from the capital of progressive proaction: San Francisco. Each month thousands of bicyclists, who call themselves the Critical Mass Movement, halt the major thoroughfares of San Francisco's beautiful city streets - without organization, and only for the purpose of advancing bicyclists' rights.
The people came. And they have stayed. They want to be productive members of society; they want opportunity, jobs and equal rights.
George W. Bush believes that America's security is dependent upon the stability and democratic integrity with which other countries govern themselves.
There are those who question whether democracy is feasible in the Muslim world -- I am not among them.