Author Archives: Charles Glass

Obama: Transparently Opaque

What’s going on with Barack “Open Government” Obama? His Justice Department has prosecuted more people for exposing government secrets than…

Now is the Arab Spring become Syrian winter. Yet Syria faces not simply an uprising against dictatorship but a civil…

The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and temporal, are in a spin over reports that…

Mitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2012. Between now and…

The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising dinner of the city’s…

You have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be as smooth as Labor’s grandees, but they…

Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the dragon, he went home.…

There were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States has slain Public Enemy Number One, and…

The speaker of Sudan’s parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, may not have spoken for the entire Arab world when he condemned…

This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen…