The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee cited President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world and his push for Israeli-Arab peace in explaining its decision to award him the prize.Read More
William Safire, the conservative speechwriter turned columnist who made an art of at once embracing and poking the Washington establishment, died at 79.Read More
With Iran, it always comes back to the nuclear issue.Read More
The meetings ran overtime, and Mahmoud Abbas wouldn’t stop arguing even after he stepped into a room full of cameras.Reporters could not make out exactly what was exercising the Palestinian Authority president in his exchange with President Obama, but fist pounding isn’t usually a sign of things going well.Read More
Looking for Justice Goldstone? You’re not likely to find him in critiques of his report.Read More