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What can we in the West do for the crisis in the Middle East? The present recipe of war stokes passion, promotes ideological conflict and raises tensions between people as they are thrust together running from conflict zones. This approach may benefi...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his henchmen may believe they are outside the reach of international justice after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but they should not be so sure. There are a range of ways the Saudi leader and th...

A note from Karen Attiah, Washington Post Global Opinions editor: I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi’s translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal woul...

The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after one of the most contentious nomination battles in history and by the slimmest margin for a justice in the modern era. Now, difficult as this seems, it will be up to t...

Only the little people pay taxes,” said a New York celebrity real estate figure in the 1980s. It was not Donald Trump but Leona Helmsley, who was eventually convicted of tax fraud and served time in prison. But they had a lot in common. On Tuesday ni...

The Brett Kavanaugh nomination and the subsequent accusations of sexual misconduct is a traumatising experience for American politics but it throws the whole issue of ethics into another realm. I listened to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, a...

Sometimes Donald Trump can’t resist. His disdain for the media generally and particular journalists specifically is always bubbling under the surface. At times, it breaks through, as it did at a news conference yesterday. Trump called on ABC’s Cecili...

The bitter debate surrounding United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh provides an instructive lesson in how blind party loyalty could disrupt democracy in Bermuda. Earlier this summer, Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to be one of the ni...

When Christine Blasey Ford appears at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, she is sure to be asked why she waited 35 years to make public her accusation that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they...

The weekend brought yet another reason that Republicans should ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its background probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s, claimed in ...

The First World War leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. The casualties in every army were appalling, the economic damage colossal and the peacemaking a master class in how not to terminate a war. “Never Again!” Americans said at the time, which ...

A lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, says her client wants to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee — just not on Monday, when Republ...