PARIS — This city, one of the most beautiful and civilized in the world, is not the place you’d expect gunmen to stand outside a café and spray diners with bullets.
War Comes to Paris
The End of the Party
I visited the island of Mykonos, Greece, in early July, shortly before voters shot down the country’s deal with its creditors in a referendum. Despite Greece’s woes, life was great on Mykonos, or so it seemed. I remember one particular night in which it felt like there was a huge party going on.
Dining With Strangers
TEL AVIV – If the purpose of traveling abroad is to learn something new, why not enjoy some home cooking and dine with locals? During a recent trip to Tel Aviv for a television segment chronicling the things that separate and unite Israelis and Arabs, our team did just that: We made two dinners part of our investigative efforts. (I’ve never had such a tasty reporting experience.)
Iraq: The Never-Ending War
There are no good wars – every one is just another indication of our inability to solve problems without violence. But the war in Iraq has been especially absurd because it was launched for the wrong reasons, has taken tens of thousands of lives – including the deaths of more than 4,000 American soldiers – and has left that country even more unstable and dangerous.
Venezuela’s Rebel Couple
“There are ways out of this disaster inside the Constitution.” – Leopoldo López Every morning at 5:30, Lilian Tintori gets …
Staying Silent Is Not Our Business
The brutal attack on journalists working at Charlie Hebdo was an attack on journalists everywhere. The terrorists who stormed the …
RISE UP: REBEL OR DIE
The powerful are not invincible. These days everything we need to rise up against dictators, abusive authorities or inept presidents …
Presidents Lie. It’s Our Job to Find the Truth.
Presidents tell lies. Well, not all of them, and not all the time. But one of the main lessons that …
The Party’s Over for Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO – The morning after a big bash can be unpleasant. The joys and excesses of the previous …
Losing the Same War Twice
Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman, who sentenced the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to death by hanging in 2006, was reportedly …