The most exciting film of the year is City of God, by the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles. The movie is so fast-paced, so complicated yet seamless, so intricately shot, that it’s hard to get it out of your mind hours ...
A year after the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal has published a lengthy article that provides new details, including the email exchanges between Pearl and his kidnappers in the days leading ...
During the Gulf and Afghan wars, the Pentagon had a clear policy about press access to U.S. troops—the less the better. That’s changing. Victoria Clarke, the Pentagon spokeswoman, outlined a new policy in a background meeting with Washington bureau chiefs this week, and the Pentagon helpfully ...
When I wrote for The Washington Post my boss was Michael Getler, who was in charge of the paper’s foreign coverage. He was a wizard at his job, and in his current position, as the Post’s ombudsman, he is, once more, a provocative master. In his column ...
I write for American publications that do not, in general, permit profanity. This is painful because I tend to write about people for whom profanity is oxygen, and their curses convey a sense of who they are. Alas, rules are rules. A particularly genteel publication once air-brushed a line in ...
“WASHINGTON (AP) — In a Jan. 3 story about government approval of Prozac for children, The Associated Press, using incorrect information from the Food and Drug Administration, erroneously reported that up to 25 percent ...
People who suggest that oil is the prime reason America might invade Iraq have tended to oppose the war for that very reason—fighting over oil would seem to be an unacceptably mercenary endeavor. Tom Friedman squares the circle ...
This may tell us more about the consequences of 9/11 than anything else. Metal from the World Trade Center is being used to build a new warship.
Tolstoy began “Anna Karenina” with his now-famous line, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” His view might hold true in the political world, too—successful regimes are all alike, while every failing regime fails in its own way. ...
An American diplomat in Nairobi attends a party at his ambassador’s residence and, possibly after a drink or two, gets into a head-on collision with a car driven by a teacher. The diplomat calls the American Embassy for help, a security detail arrives and whisks him away to a hospital, while ...
