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Opinion - Georgie Anne Geyer

ADAMS AND JEFFERSON CAN POINT OUR WAY FORWARD

Thu Jul 3, 7:58 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- As the Fourth of July approached that summer of 1826, John Adams, the second president of the United States and designer of American constitutionalism, lay dying in his Massachusetts home.

  • LOST IN THE KHYBER PASS Tue Jul 1, 6:23 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- It was supposed to be Iraq that was threatened. For at least the last five years, it was assumed by the best American analysts that the strange and ominous tribal warfare at the heart of that historically troubled country would inevitably "do it in."

  • AFRICAN LEADERS MAY BE READY TO TAKE ON MUGABE Thu Jun 26, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- When I visited the British colony of Rhodesia in 1979 before it gained its much longed-for independence as Zimbabwe -- an independence that has today virtually destroyed it -- it was, even then, not difficult to hear ominous musings about the independence leader and soon-to-be president, Robert Mugabe.

  • MEXICO MAY BE HEADING TOWARD A POPULIST FUTURE Tue Jun 24, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- The Iraq story makes the papers about once a day, although ever more unenthusiastically for the American reader. Afghanistan edges into newsprint occasionally. But our own hemisphere? Or our important, long-suffering neighbor, Mexico? There the coverage is even worse.

  • SUCCESS OF E.U. SHOULD NOT REST WITH IRELAND'S VOTERS Fri Jun 20, 3:30 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- The Irish went overnight from being the pride and joy of the European Union to being the bad boy of Europe -- and with good reason. I fear they are going to wake up after their present intoxication of self-assertion and realize that Mother Europe is not only not pleased, but might actually DO something about her displeasure.

  • BOY SCOUTS SHOWED LEADERSHIP ELECTED OFFICIALS LACK Mon Jun 16, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- Your heart breaks as you see the pictures of sorrow, tragedy and loss from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and Columbus Junction. Of all places -- Iowa! I am originally from Illinois and, even next door, we thought of Iowa, so deeply tucked into the heartland of America, as one of the safest and most protected of places.

  • GEOGRAPHY EXPLAINS IRAN-IRAQ RELATIONSHIP Thu Jun 12, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- Step over to your globe of the world, or get out your atlas, and look up Iran. You will find it to be a huge blob deep in the Middle East, bordered by Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and -- of course! -- our very own Iraq.

  • DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE BRINGS PROMISE OF POSITIVE CHANGE Tue Jun 10, 11:23 AM ET

    WASHINGTON -- What a strange, dangerous and complicated -- and in many ways, absolutely wonderful! -- time it is in America.

  • OBAMA AND CLINTON DO NOT MAKE A DREAM TICKET Fri Jun 6, 3:26 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- When by accident I ran into Zbigniew Brzezinski at a dinner Tuesday night, just before Barack Obama's victory speech, the first thing he did was to issue a personal warning about Hillary Clinton's continuing ambition.