President Obama has completed his first 100 days The calendar has always seemed an odd way to connote significance but time is a thing we humans have long enjoyed measuring so I suppose it is as good a marker as any for assessing the new Chief Magistrate If you read only the statements by some Ame

Watching President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas confirmed that this man rsquo s personal story has intertwined with the nation rsquo s complicated and usually tragic racial history in such a way that others can rsquo t tear their eyes away from him President Obama walks into a room an

Thousands of Haitians in the U.S. face deportation. They deserve better.

First of all, I want to say, as speakers on great occasions always say, how honored I am to be here. For me it is very true. I have great and personal reasons for saying this. I first discovered America as Columbus was wont to say, back in the 1950's when a newly named editor invited me to come for

Charles Morris chronicles the first 50 years of America.

"These people have no alternative but to entrust themselves to human smugglers who often treat them as meat," said one human rights worker.

It is entirely understandable that the President of France and the Chancellor of Germany took the occasion of the G-20 summit in London to gloat After years of listening to the Anglo-Americans tell them they were economically-speaking fuddy-duddies wedded to archaic regulatory schemes that imped

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez on reducing extreme poverty

I guess I must repeat the question What is it about President Obama that drives otherwise sane people crazy Our friends at National Review Online have run a symposium on the subject of Notre Dame rsquo s decision to award the President an honorary degree and to invite him to give this year rsquo

From 2009, the editors on the reelection of Hugo Chavez