Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.