The New York Times

The news from Moscow on Tuesday was not good — Russia, a senior official said, had decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

All eyes are on Iraq, but the most breathtaking democratic reforms in the Muslim world are happening in Turkey-with Islamists leading the way.

President Bush thought he had at last found someplace even more sequestered from the real world than the Republican fund-raisers and conservative think tanks where he makes his carefully controlled "public" appearances.

In the movie "The Untouchables," Sean Connery, a cop named Malone, instructs a naïve Eliot Ness on going up against gangsters.

The cycle of violence that is once again gripping the Middle East presents the United States with another setback in its role as regional peace broker. Never has it become more clear that diplomacy alone cannot secure a workable truce between the Israelis and Palestinians.

"Orientalism" established Dr. Said as a figure of enormous influence in American and European universities, a hero to many, especially younger faculty and graduate students on the left for whom that book became an intellectual credo and the founding document postcolonial studies...

To a lot of Iraqis, we're no longer the guys who threw out Saddam, but the ones who are busting down doors and barging in on their wives and daughters.

The difference between American and European attitudes is widening, the poll found, as longtime allies of the United States increasingly chafe under American leadership.

Some 1,500 American investigators are scouring the Iraqi countryside for evidence of weapons of mass destruction that has so far eluded them.

In the real world there have recently been some hopeful signs that administration policies are beginning to reflect a more sophisticated understanding of Iraq. Future White House reports should describe that world, not wishful fantasies.

Let others fight over whether the war in Iraq was a neocon vigilante action disrupting diplomacy. The neocons have moved on to a vigilante action to occupy diplomacy.

Welcome to the second nuclear age and the Bush administration's quiet responses to the age's perceived dangers.

The sleeper issue is media giantism. People are beginning to grasp and resent the attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to allow the Four Horsemen of Big Media to gobble up every independent station in sight. By William Safire

After I wrote a month ago about the Niger uranium hoax in the State of the Union address, a senior White House official chided me gently and explained that there was more to the story that I didn't know.

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to publish a draft report next week on the state of the environment, but after editing by the White House, a long section describing risks from rising global temperatures has been whittled to a few noncommittal paragraphs.

Now an administration official tells The Washington Post that Mr. Cheney's office first learned of its role in the episode by reading that column of mine. Hmm. I have an offer for Mr. Cheney: I'll tell you everything I know about your activities, if you'll tell me all you know. By Nicholas D.

Saint Augustine said that "Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to change them."

Protests against the American forces here are rising by the day as Iraqis exercise their new right to complain — something that often landed them in prison or worse during President Saddam Hussein's rule.

Jimmy Carter: "As a Christian and as a president who was severely provoked by international crises, I became thoroughly familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards."

ABD, Güvenlik Konseyi'ni görmezden gelirse savaşın ilk kurbanı BM olacak. Bu, o ünlü cümleyi hatırlatıyor: Korumak istediğimiz köyü yıkmak zorunda kalıyoruz

Forty-one American Nobel laureates in science and economics issued a declaration yesterday opposing a preventive war against Iraq without wide international support.

A largely missing ingredient in the nascent debate about invading Iraq showed up on the streets of major cities over the weekend as crowds of peaceable protesters marched in a demand to be heard.

Seçmenleri komşu ülkedeki baskıcı rejimi sona erdirmek suretiyle sağlanacak uzun vadeli çıkarlar etrafında birleştirmeyi başaramamak bir numaralı hata oldu.

Paradoxically, the growth of democracy in Turkey — which America cheers — has introduced an element of uncertainty in that alliance.

Senior American officials said today that they were increasingly concerned that they were running out of time to persuade Turkey to permit the deployment of American ground troops in case of a war with Iraq.

The Defense Department, arguing that an increasingly popular form of wireless Internet access could interfere with military radar, is seeking new limits on the technology, which is seen as a rare bright spot for the communications industry.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will do almost anything to get Turkey into the exclusive 15-member club known as the European Union.

If the U.N. Security Council fails to adopt a resolution holding Iraq "in material breach" of its many disarmament agreements, that refusal will have consequences for the U.N. and several of its member nations.

Turkey Grows More Worried Every Day About a U.S. Attack on Iraq

The Bush administration likes to say that the establishment of a democratic government in Iraq could be a model for political reform in the Islamic world.