Sanctions will not persuade the Assad regime to surrender power, and talk about an embargo on luxury goods is a cruel joke.

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is deadly serious: Holocaust denial is his personal passion, not just a way of taunting Israel, and it's based on his personal interpretation of history.

The Lives of Others belongs in that line of filmed dramas that have been powerful enough to force whole nations to discuss painful episodes in their histories.

In recent years armed Americans--not on-duty police officers--have successfully prevented a number of attempted mass murders.

Psychiatric aid should not be the first kind of assistance on a trauma scene.

Holocaust memory is about our search into memory--an attempt to make contact, in our own souls, with the reality and immensity of what was lost.

The article tells of the life story of Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. He was twice the foreign minister of Poland, an author and historian, an anti-Communist dissident and ideologue of the Solidarity movement.

Many grief counselors thinkthat Sept. 11 attacks triggered a national mental health crisis; not so.