Column: History Never Repeats Itself

Venice seeks to be a place that visitors will adore and return to, but by choosing the path of novelty, it may often receive only shallow admiration while the rot continues — unabated — underneath.

The similarity is stark: betrayal and deception with royalty running amok, fleeting allegiances between fickle rulers (both real and fictitious) converge at the overwrought palace.

I’ve lived in four cities on three continents, flew before I could walk and have accumulated so much jetlag that I may be negative years old.

While the affairs of Greeks long gone and Georgetown weekends may seem insignificant, we see a common thread: Love has a major impact on how we conduct our political affairs.

I would bet not a single face failed to fall at the sight of those 2,993 freshly laid flags on Copley Lawn. I looked out of my window and saw people racing to class slow down to look; then, a hole appeared in their hearts and stomachs.

The Taliban rolls relentlessly into the heart of Pakistan; the ominous suspicion that the events in the Swat Valley in ...

When reading about El Salvador, one comes across the usual array of leftist guerrilla fighters, a brutal dozen-year-long civil war ...

At a pizza luncheon last Thursday in McGhee Library, School of Foreign Service Dean Robert Gallucci made reference to “the ...

With gentle prompts from my father, I remembered Gandhi this week. Because of him, the last 60 years have seen ...

We were a huddled mass that morning; not quite “wretched refuse,” but after hours spent on frozen ground we looked ...