Articles by Robert Zaller

The Japanese are nothing if not stubborn. It took a visit from Hiroo Onoda’s former commanding officer, by then a retired bookseller, to persuade the…

It’s been nearly 32 years since a 28-year-old taxicab driver was convicted of the murder of a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death. It…

They say there’s no room for a third party in American politics. There’s a reason for that: If there’s one thing Democrats and Republicans can…

The double standard in American politics has rarely been on more visible display than in the current crisis in Ukraine. Put the shoe on the…

When Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address that he would pursue his political agenda through executive order where he could not…

The Jewish question is now old hat. In Germany, a new generation is tired of guilt about the Nazis and just wants to get on…

It seems an age ago that Barack Obama, after his convincing defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012, began his second term in office. The president…

During the Bosnian crisis of the 1990s, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared the United States to be the world’s “indispensable” nation. Barack Obama repeated…

A recent headline in The New York Times announced a grim but inevitable marker: The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has now reached…

President Barack Obama has sent a budget to Congress, which I guess is news because he’s overlooked that particular function of the executive branch until…