Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Iran is about to cross the nuclear red line and the U.S. had better do something about it. The election of Hassan Rowhani, a moderate president, is a game changer and likely means Iran will slow down its nuclear project. That’s good but not good enough for Israel’s […]

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I am not impressed by Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed but energetic attempt to broker a deal between Israelis and Palestinians. It’s not that I don’t think his heart is in the right place. I know from conversations with him when he was in the Senate that he totally gets what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]

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Make a call to Time-Warner Cable’s customer service and you may find yourself talking to an American—in Mexico City. According to Jill Anderson, the author of Los Otros Dreamers, a forthcoming book about young Mexican-American adults who have been deported or who returned on their own volition, there is an industry growing in Mexico City […]

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The United Kingdom is about to receive two of America’s top exports in far-right extremism. The English Defence League, a group that advocates for the rights of the “European race,” invited anti-Muslim activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (pictured, left) to speak at its rally on June 29. Geller is perhaps best known for a […]

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 The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulf… of Guinea. Never mind that most Americans couldn’t find it on a map and haven’t heard of the nations on its shores like Gabon, Benin, and Togo. Never mind that just five days before I […]

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