Read Ethan Bronner’s story on Jerusalem in the Times: Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition… views Jerusalem,…

This recent posting about Paul Berman’s alleged ‘persuasiveness’ prompted a painful memory — the time…

There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today about that fatal rocket attack…

The superb young Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk was in for some big surprises when he…

Egyptians are justifiably proud that Cairo is one of the safest big cities in the…

Here’s an idea for a good article in the New York Times — a profile…

The New York Times article on nonviolence in the West Bank is strongly biased. As…

Some day, a Haitian writer (maybe Edwidge Danticat?), should do a novel based on the…

In my last installment, my friend Milfort Bruno and I were in the Haitian countryside…

The contrast is still astonishing. 62 dead in the September 1989 earthquake in the San…