It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

Slim's actions when he became British chief of staff were to shake up the system. He took over from Bernard Montgomery, who, true to form, used the occasion of the change of command to whine about things. Slim's response: "What have YOU done?!" A succinct but scathing indictment of the British system of leadership.

In recent weeks, protests in Burma culminated in a military crackdown that left as many as 200 dead and as many as 10,000 arrested. While the United States and the European Union have called for tougher sanctions, Burma’s neighbors remain reluctant to pressure the military junta; China benefits from Burma’s...

The humanitarian impulse leads us to help the suffering Burmese--even against the will of the irrational military junta in Rangoon.

The European Union boycott of Mugabemight work better if the United Nations did not help the Zimbabwean leader flout it.

The uprising in Tibet may become a serious problem for China in the future.

Hillary Clinton's proclamation that a peaceful resolution to the South China Sea territorial dispute is in America's core interest is a welcome departure from President Obama's disastrous "strategic reassurance" policy in Asia.

The Global Fund is to be commended for its transparency, but it has failed to act on the information it has gleaned, and continues to allow its funds to be used by governmental distribution systems known to be corrupt.