In his scathing takedown of the modern Republican Party – How the Right Lost Its Mind – the conservative former Wisconsin radio talk show...

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson is one of the few politicians these days that can genuinely surprise with his words and actions. He...

It would be easy – even inevitable – given the dysfunctional state of American politics to just say the heck with it – nothing works any...

[Paris] – The chance to spend a few weeks in France this summer provided both the time and the detachment to reflect – on politics, the...

Tenth in a series from Europe… And what more exotic destination than Istanbul or, better yet, Constantinople. From the 1880’s until the...

Ninth in a series from Europe… The French are famous, or depending upon your point of view notorious, for their attempts to protect the...

[Paris] – On a European scale the apparatus of daily life – the kitchen gadgets, the automobiles and, yes, the household appliances – are...

[Paris] – We are not always able to precisely identify the exact moment when some overarching event changed the world. History is rarely...

[Paris] – I have been thinking about – and eating – strawberries. I bought my strawberries last weekend from a fruit stall along the Rue...

[Port en Bessin, Normandy] – We’ve all heard the classic stereotype frequently attached to the French; they’re cool – even cold –...

[Milan] – Over the weekend the newspapers in France were reporting on one of the worst national rail strikes in memory. The strike was...

The man who had twice been Prime Minister of France, an international statesman, a friend of Herbert Hoover and TIME’s Man of the Year in...