New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

There is no shame in failing

We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live.

the way up is through service

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

It's just a figment of the imagination.

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.