It should not be the job of the American ambassador to comment publicly about issues that are internal to Turkish politics.

The center of Washington's policy should be support for Turkey's constitution, judiciary, and rule of law, no matter how chilly it may make Ross L. Wilson's lunches with the prime minister.

As Recep Tayyip Erdogan approaches the end of his first decade of rule, the question for American and European policymakers should not be whether Turkey should join the European Union, but whether it even belongs in NATO.

Is the public really demanding a third-party candidate?

The great puzzle about this election is why Al Gore is not at least eight or 10 points ahead of George W. Bush in the polls. Political scientists long ago established that the pocketbook vote belonged to the party in the White House when the country was doing well economically.

Once again, the question: Is Pat Buchanan a smart cookie or a crackpot?

Five years into the war on terror, inept U.S. diplomacy risks undercutting a key democracy (and ally) that President Bush once called a model for the Muslim world.

Blast from the Past's premise could serve as a metaphor for Hollywood, where traditional sensibilities went underground sometime during the Kennedy administration.