Adam B. Kushner

He has served in a dozen cabinets, shared the Nobel Prize for his part in the Oslo accords, and twice been prime minister. So after more than 65 years at the center of Israeli history, Shimon Peres was prepared for something different—the presidency.

When Congress finally approved the U.S.-India nuclear deal this month, it sailed through the body with scarcely a peep. Most analysts in Washington and New Delhi hailed the move.

The Comparison Veep nominee Sarah Palin answers concerns about her inexperience by comparing herself to Harry Truman, who became president three months into his term, when FDR died.

If college students can beat the best antivirus programs, why do people spend nearly $5 billion a year on them?

McCain recognizes there are certain people in the world whom you can't use any word other than evil to describe.

By Adam Kushner Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has this year displayed enthusiasm for the candidacy of his friend John McCain, muddled through his GOP convention speech tonight like a reluctant accomplice.

By Adam Kushner MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Now that New Orleans-my hometown-seems to have dodged another bullet, the musicians performing at the Friends of New Orleans benefit concert here (there was one in Denver, too) are almost grateful for Hurricane Gustav. "The phones ain't working and I know there's water in my neighborhood, but I don't know how much," said Tab Benoit, the Houma, La.

The Russians isolate themselves from the world and suffer. Making the rhetoric inflammatory is not helpful.

Oil and gas traveling through Georgia was supposed to free Europe from Russia. Not anymore.

George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick.

The Comparison Sen. Joe Lieberman, the self-styled "independent Democrat," has campaigned for his GOP friend John McCain and suggested he might speak at the rival convention.

The Comparison When Ronald Reagan won the Republican nomination in 1980, he ignored the advice of party poohbahs who wanted him to pacify the establishment by picking former president Gerald Ford as his running mate, going with George H.W.

Before he graduated from Tulane in 2003, Ardalen Minokadeh spent most of his waking hours in one of two places: P.J.'s Coffee on Maple Street and the late-night carrels at the University Center.

When Israel swaps prisoners with its enemies, it gets back its fallen soldiers but hurts the rest of us.

Author Joseph O'Neill uses everything from cricket to the post-9/11 world to explore what it means to be a man.

With big orders and pushy demands, Middle East carriers are upending the global airline industry.

Totalitarian states are learning to control citizens by creating the impression of ubiquitous surveillance.

Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, is as well credentialed as anyone to assess the global credit crisis. He won the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40, was chief economist at the World Bank and ran Harvard University.

America has a high-tech economy, but its carriers are weighed down by old planes and stifling rules.

The Treaty of Versailles didn't just provoke World War II. It betrayed the very idea of the nation-state.

How a 1919 peace treaty set up the rest of the century for war, genocide and ethnic strife

Mexico's last President, Vicente Fox, ended more than 70 years of uninterrupted one-party rule when he assumed office in 2000. Today, the former Coca-Cola executive is trying to find a place in a competitive field: former heads of state.

A new book about the Supreme Court focuses on the private lives of the justices. But should they be treated like Britneys in black?

Haleh Esfandiari discusses her interrogation and imprisonment inside Iran.

Nicolas Sarkozy's showboating has made him very popular at home. But abroad, it's a different story.