Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.