About 2,500 years ago, Thucydides set out to record what had happened in the Peloponnesian War, in the process laying down principles that could just as well guide a correspondent today in Iraq, or anywhere else, for that matter. “I have made it a...

Whatever your political inclination, you must agree that there’s a mess right now at the state Capitol. And you know, of course, that it’s the media’s fault. That’s what an old friend told me this week, suggesting that the media was “hounding...

Maybe tomorrow will be David Paterson’s last day in office. Or maybe the next day, or some day next week. A lot of people are saying that his resignation is inevitable. But the governor just might be able to stick around to fight another day — to...

Some things cannot possibly live up to the hype that surrounds them. Angelina Jolie in person, we are reliably informed, does not take the breath away. Barack Obama is unlikely to usher in an era of peace and prosperity during his first term. And now,...

One of the first lessons they teach at Politician University, I was told long ago, is that you don’t gain votes by repeating the bad things folks say about you. So Barack Obama doesn’t say, “I don’t have a Marxist heart and a wish to spend us...