Aslan Maskhadov, theman elected president of Chechnya under international supervision,is dead. Assassinated.

L'Amérique doute, pas les néoconservateurs. En tout cas, pas ceux qui étaient venus en rangs serrés à la conférence organisée récemment à Rome par l'Institut Aspen Italie et The New Atlantic Initiative (la Nouvelle initiative transatlantique)

America's local news is now the world's local news, as demonstrated by the Virginia Tech massacre.

Most reports on the president's trip to Europe fail to show even minimal understanding of what the problem in America's relations with Europe is or how it came to be.

European skeptics about the Iraq war jeer at the United States, but theypropose no solutions to accompany their criticism.

There is a great deal of political controversy surrounding the use of headscarves in Turkey.

Consensus is emerging in the US in favour of national missile defence.

A review of the Black Book of Saddam Hussein edited by Chris Kutschera.