Senator Robert Byrd was a champion of the Senate, working to protect its fundamental character and trying to preserve a functioning Senate that would make the framers proud.

The passing of Bill Buckley reminded many people of his accomplishments and the great influence he had.

CEDAW promotes the notion that rights are things that exist in the abstract--manna from globocrats, NGOs and activist lawyers rather than the responsibilities of nation-states and their political leaders.

Country-wide, peaceful, anti-government protests have been met with the repressive use of force by Yemeni security forces. Tensions are running high in the capital, where loyalist and defected troops have already fought and violent crackdowns continue.

American assistance programs aimed at helping Yemen build and maintain counterterrorism forces will not suffice in the face of a real and growing al Qaeda-affiliated insurgency.

Sir, Edward Luce's description of the competing views in the US about both the financial crisis and a supposed "crisis of capitalism" was a caricature, particularly his discussion of the view he ascribed to the Republicans ("America's three views on the crisis", March 19).

Taiz is as important a city as Sana’a to understanding the Yemeni Spring, yet its significance has been largely overlooked by the international community. The path to meaningful political settlement in Sana'a runs through Taiz.

The Iranian Qods Force plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. in Washington in a terrorist attack using Mexican drug cartel associates shows the complex threat the Iranian regime poses.