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New York
Ceremony swamps the republic.
Over the weekend, Ronald Reagan reached out from the
There comes a moment in every political campaign when the challenger moves beyond counterpunching and starts looking presidential that is, plausible as a policymaker and not just a critic.
Barcelona, Spain
Poll sceptics and poll scorners are poking and prodding the surveys with alarming frequency these days. (I confess to be one of these nerve-wracked legions.) Analysts who ought
I wrote earlier in the year about a background rumble that can be heard behind the Bushies effort to define John Kerry before Kerry has a chance to define himself.
New York
Whats it like to be back in New York after seven weeks in Greece, Turkey, and India? Disconcerting, verging on stunning.
I have an oversupply of reasons.
Jaipur, India
The traveler always travels from somewhere. You carry your lenses from home. Yet the point of the lenses, to belabor the obvious, is transparency proof that the world
Khajuraho, India
You can't travel a mile in India without feeling the weight of religion. The shrines along the sidewalks, the pictures on the dashboards of taxis, the
Delhi
The Dance of Democracy goes The Times of Indias slogan for the balloting that began this week in this stupendous countrys national elections.
The dance, if it
Istanbul
My Turkish conversations began with a mens-room attendant in Göreme, the staggeringly weird and glorious post-volcanic natural rock-and-cave garden that covers many square miles in the middle of
Ankara, Turkey
I wrote last week from Athens about the medias specifically, CNNs misguided language, which obfuscated whats at stake in my homelands election. Today, a
Athens, Greece
Here in Greece, the furies that condemn George Bushs policies have reawakened demons barely dozing after decades of resentment. Those demons were frolicking even before US support
Athens, Greece
Im in Athens to lecture on American media and politics. Everywhere I find clues some of them inadvertent as to how things work at home.
Across the
