Christopher Dickey

New immigrants may be the best thing that ever happened to American cities, but don't wait for the leading presidential candidates to tell you that.

Iran's latest book-banning tells us the regime may not know the difference between fact and fiction. Does it care?

If the new IAEA assessment of Tehran's nuclear behavior were a report card, most of the grades would be F's.

The costs of the Iraq war are not only astronomical, as a new Congressional report shows, they are unconscionable. So who's going to pay?

In Europe and the United States, the generation of 1968 had an idealistic core expressed in culture, politics and a distinct way of looking at the world. Its legacy lives on.

This week Saudi Arabia hosts a summit of the Organization For The Petroleum Exporting Countries at a time when the cost of oil is soaring toward $100 a barrel, with tensions in Iraq and the Persian Gulf making matters worse.

An exclusive conversation with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal about Israel, Iran and the frustrations of Middle East diplomacy.

The gross oversimplification of news, whether about Iraq, Iran or Darfur, is a dangerous sign of the times.

In a real-life version of 'Rendition,' a determined Italian prosecutor is hunting down those charged as the Bush administration's contract kidnappers.

France's First Couple is officially splitting. For Nicolas Sarkozy, it's a good day for a divorce.

A new DVD of an old movie may offer perspective on American attitudes behind the invasion of Iraq.

What's striking about this conflict is not that Americans and Iraqis have met on the battlefield and fallen in love and married. It's that so few have. In their stories lies the sad, tortured tale of the war itself.

The War on Terror didn't start as an attack on Americans' rights, but several new books argue that's exactly what happened.

The French president is exhorting his countrymen to philosophize less and work more. But are the French really too cerebral? Hmm, let's give that some thought.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran is not a 'clear and present danger.' But his patience is limited.

Author Bernard-Henri Lévy rejects French President Nicolas Sarkozy's contention that his countrymen think too much.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, freshly returned from a visit to Baghdad, warns that Iraq is a problem everyone must take responsibility for.

How firearms intended for Iraqi security forces are winding up in the hands of extremists across the region.

The real threat to the West is not from foreign jihadis but from 'unremarkable' civilians within our societies, says an insightful new report from the New York Police Department.

Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi (his preferred spelling of a name with many variations in English) is the best-known son of Muammar Kaddafi, the Libyan ruler once called "the most dangerous man in the world." Lately, Kaddafi has emerged as a newfound friend of the west, renouncing terror, giving up weapons of mass destruction, and opening Libya for business.

The cosmopolitan son of Libyan leader Muammar Kaddafi is surprisingly frank about the Middle East and his former pariah state's nukes-for-prisoners deal with France. 'It's an immoral game,' says Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi.

Are we in danger of losing the war of ideas on the Web?

Leaders at the Rome summit on the Mideast are ignoring the real bottom line: Hizbullah is winning.

The former British prime minister has now begun his new career as a Mideast envoy. How could anyone think he's the right man for the job?

Bush is losing hopelessly in the war of ideas. What the terrorists can teach him about strategy, propaganda and ideology.

Britain has lowered its state of alert from "critical" to "severe," which is where it was before bombs almost started going off  in London and Glasgow a few days ago.

The most human of icons, Diana was, Tina Brown's new book says, a liar as well as a saint.

In "The Diana Chronicles," Tina Brown, former editor of the London magazine Tatler, as well as U.S. magazines Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has managed to paint a fresh and human portrait of this iconic figure. Brown spoke with NEWSWEEK's Christopher Dickey in New York.

Pakistanis are coming to Europe in big numbers; authorities worry they're bringing terror with them.

Edward Behr was an extraordinary foreign correspondent for extraordinary times.