The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.