Religious persecution in Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran is often in the news for its nuclear activities. Tehran also has a deteriorating human rights record.
Pakistan's new government: an older and wiser Sharif? The first time Nawaz Sharif became prime minister of Pakistan was almost a quarter-century ago. His second term was ended 14 years ago by a military coup that drove him into exile. Now he's back, a good deal older - but is he any wiser?
Google Glass is progress at a cost Picture yourself sitting in a restaurant having a private conversation with a business client or an intimate chat with a romantic partner, paying no attention to the person at the next table wearing spectacles and who seems, at times, to be staring..
March on Washington with guns? Fat chance Many members of Congress cannot restrain their love of the Second Amendment.
What could Park have done better at US speech? President Park Geun-hye's speech to the joint meeting of U.S. Congress should have been focused on balancing what she would like to say and what the U.S. Congress leadership is interested in. In general terms, her speech was quite successful, timel..
Can Barack Obama survive scandals? President Barack Obama has suddenly found himself mired in three different scandals: The ongoing Republican anger over the September attacks on the Libyan consulate in Benghazi; the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service has subjected Tea Par..
Syria's thin red line UNITED NATIONS - Has Syria crossed the red line which the Obama administration warned about should there be any use of chemical weapons in the conflict? Yes, No, Maybe so. But even if there was an apparently limited albeit brutal use of the ner..
Obama making Bush look like model of restraint To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama's supporters believed - a belief the candidate encouraged - that, if elected, he would rein in the worst excesses of President George W. Bush's national-security strategy.
Too much to ask? A Congress-proof recovery? The consensus has been that the economy will continue to recover slowly but steadily unless Congress does something stupid, always a possibility, to mess it up.
President's apology: is it necessary or fair? President Park Geun-hae made an apology to the nation for her spokesman's sexual harassment of an intern during her historic visit to Washington in early May. The opposition party and the public demanded that she apologize for her staff's misconduc..
It's raining cats, dogs and scandals Please, please, there's no reason to impeach President Barack Obama and it is overreach to say we're getting Watergate all over again. But the scandals are indeed piling up on each other, or, to use another metaphor, it's not just raining. It's pou..
Pakistan's winnable war on polio LAHORE - I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy and to get the best start in life. I was lucky enough to be brought up in a middle-class family with good sanita..
US Military lags in fighting sexual abuse The dramatic increase in military sexual assaults, while startling, is less so I think because it is the inevitable consequence of the mixture of men and women in a profession that has been until the last few decades the sole province of men.
Obama should act more quickly on IRS Rare among nations, the United States has a voluntary tax code that actually works. It works because, by and large, taxpayers trust the code's fairness and the competency of the agency that administers it, the Internal Revenue Service.
Chavismo after Chavez CARACAS - With the death of Hugo Chavez, Chavismo has lost its supremacy in Venezuela. It does not matter that so-called Chavistas still control Venezuelas parliament, 17 of 23 provincial governments, and all key state institutions, including the..
Benghazi is biggest coverup since Watergate "There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy," President Barack Obama told the United Nations last Sept. 25. A fortnight after the deadly attack on America's mission in Benghazi, Libya, Obama surely knew that an al-Qaida-propelled assa..
Re-emerging crimes in Calif. Crime dominated California's political landscape during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s before giving way to other preoccupations.
