The NYT published a gripping story by Anthony Shadid, Tyler Hicks, Steven Farrell and Lynsey…

My old history books gave the credit for constructing the Suez Canal to Ferdinand de…

In the very first days of Jimmy Carter’s presidential administration, back in January 1977, a…

All of a sudden, middle-aged American men in suits who couldn’t find their way, unaided,…

This site has already effectively dismissed the long Goldberg/Ibish op-ed article in yesterday’s New York Times.  But…

I’m just back from Port-au-Prince, where, as always, I met people with extraordinary courage.  Here…

Despite the efficiency of crime labs in TV dramas, or the storied deductions of Sherlock…

The New York Times is at it again.  In an article about President Obama’s mild…

Journalists use the term “boilerplate” for brief standard explanations.  Here, for instance, is how the…

To my great surprise I just discovered that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has its own…