When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

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

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

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.

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.