La violencia trae al país de cabeza. Urge frenarla y la ciudadanía interesada en hacer “algo” concreto puede unirse a la campaña de Alianza Cívica que solicita a Barack Obama la adopción de tres medidas que frenen el contrabando de armas a México. Las batallas y las guerras se ganan...

El ataque sobre Libia lo dirigen todavía dos mandos militares distintos. Las decisiones políticas las toma una reunión de más de 29 naciones de cuatro continentes. Los objetivos los fija la ONU. Este es el mundo cuando Estados Unidos no dirige, o dirige tímidamente, como es el caso. El resultado...

General Motors said Thursday that it would temporarily shut a truck plant in Louisiana because it could not get enough Japanese-made parts, the first in what analysts say could be widespread disruptions at auto plants in North America because of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis half a world...

Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control. In a nation where you can set your watch by a train’s arrival and a conductor apologizes for even a one-minute...

On Jan. 20, 1961, John Kennedy delivered his rousing Inaugural Address. But this speech was preceded, as William Galston of the Brookings Institution has reminded us, by an equally important speech: Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address. Kennedy’s speech was an idealistic call to action. Eisenhower’s...

Leo con algún que otro escalofrío que la líder de extrema derecha Marine Le Pen aventaja a los demás candidatos a las presidenciales francesas de 2012. No dejan de ser insólitos, a la vez que sorprendentes, la reaparición y el crecimiento de movimientos fascistas y ultraderechistas en Europa...

We’re an overconfident species. Ninety-four percent of college professors believe they have above-average teaching skills. A survey of high school students found that 70 percent of them have above-average leadership skills and only 2 percent are below average. Men tend to be especially blessed with...

It’s been nearly nine weeks since that tragic shooting in Tucson, and you may be wondering whether there’s been any gun legislation proposed in the aftermath. Well, in Florida, a state representative has introduced a bill that would impose fines of up to $5 million on any doctor who asks a patient...

There’s a video of Dr. Alia Brahimi of the London School of Economics greeting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as “Brother Leader” at the school three months ago, and presenting him with an L.S.E. cap — a tradition, she says, that started when the cap was handed to Nelson Mandela. It may be possible...

When the remains of a Vietnam War soldier buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified in 1998 using DNA, Pentagon officials proudly said that the days of interring service members as “Unknown” could well be over. But now, for the first time in decades,...