Wouldn’t it be quite the scandal if the president of the United States were to pimp out his wife and her sister to use their sexual favors to win the endorsement of his influential predecessor? It was a smear that James Madison had to endure in the year leading up …

In World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the legendary “Desert Fox” (“Wuestenfuchs”). Today in Libya, Col. Muammar Qaddafi is crazy like a fox. In the past few weeks, Qaddafi’s army has been driving east across the Libyan Desert, rolling up the democratic forces who bravely rose up …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is in the news. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence — but the rape charges against him symbolize the IMF: an institution of privilege that routinely acts to the disadvantage of the vulnerable. The IMF’s founding purpose vanished …

I graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in mathematics in 1967. Back then, we didn’t use fancy calculators to solve problems. Instead, we utilized formulas to “solve for x.” The same holds true in life. Throughout my own, “solving for x” meant learning how to nurture a family, how …

President Obama gave more of a campaign speech than a governing address Tuesday night when he delivered his State of the Union message. Rather than offer any concrete prescriptions for the big issues the country faces, Mr. Obama offered soothing rhetoric and well-tested phrases (mentioning “jobs” 31 times compared to …

“We, the People of South Sudan, Grateful to the Almighty God for giving the people of the South Sudan the wisdom and courage to determine their destiny and future through a free, transparent, and peaceful referendum in accordance with the provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, 2005…Recalling our long and …

It happened again just the other day. I was reading the New York Times and I came across something so hilarious that for a moment it seemed to be some kind of joke. But this was in an obituary. The obit was about one George Whitman, the proprietor of the …

Politics in the United States can be likened to a tug-of-war. In a tug-of-war teams try to force each other across a line by pulling on a rope. The winner is the team that pulls the other team across the line first. Today there is a perpetual tug-of-war that rages …

In the hopeful advent of Christmas and in the optimistic wake of Hanukkah there is a sad, baleful September song playing in the halls of the U. S. Capitol and it echoes from New York’s Harbor to San Francisco Bay. It creates a miasma as thick and acrid and wrenching …

Just last week President Obama visited with his old buddy, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at the White House. In an overt effort to demonstrate how he had single-handedly “repaired” the relationship between Russia and the United States, President Obama took the Russian leader out for lunch to a Washington, D.C.-area …