Jacob Laksin

The line on Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress of the Heinz ketchup fortune and wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee for…

In this week’s heated debate over the end of the Cold War, here is an item you may have missed….

Leave it to the incessant drumbeat of pro-Kerry propaganda, otherwise known as the “news cycle,” to make the impossible seem…

NEW YORK — File this under: Why do we need the U.N., again? In case you missed this story, the…

Humility being all the rage on the Right these days, allow me to make my own contribution to the gallery…

Call it Democracy Deficiency Syndrome. Frustrated by the continuing struggle to build a stable democracy in Iraq, some backers of…

This weekend Spain learned what truckling to terrorists will get you: a big bomb on a busy rail line. That’s…

For a guy who famously does not read the papers, George W. Bush sure knows how the fourth estate gets…

Give this to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. What Spain’s prime minister-elect lacks in diplomatic tact and a general willingness to…

If ever there was a time for European leaders to trade talk for action, last week was it. So it…