Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.