Insight on the News

The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon may have provided a much-needed wake-up call to the nation's schools concerning the teaching of current affairs. Immediately following the tragic events of that day, teachers began staying...

Most nations of the world believe the question of children's rights was answered with a U.N. treaty that asserts children should be protected from harm and exploitation and benefit from adequate standards of living and an education. The U.N. treaty...

President George W. Bush is on the brink of a stunning new accomplishment in defense of the nation. Bit by bit, senior administration figures tell INSIGHT, he is dismantling what they say he regards as a failed and discredited system of treaties, arms-control...

In the agonizing weeks since Sept. 11 I have observed a trend in U.S. foreign policy that is of great concern: a willingness to allow religious freedom and other human rights to suffer in order to combat terrorism abroad. As the United States assembled...

Tommy Franks is not the most colorful of generals. A reluctant press briefer during the best of times, he saw no reason to spend time cultivating a relationship with journalists when there was a media onslaught in early November over his handling of...

Saudi Arabia is a powder keg, say Middle East experts, and multimillionaire Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network was intended as the match to blow the United States out of the region and radicalize the whole of Islam. President George...

As previously reported in INSIGHT (see "Indian Murders Still Beg the Question of Justice," July 1, 1996), the dust long has been settled in the shooting of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. It was back in June 1975...

Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) does not mind the good fight. Nor does he shy away from making enemies. The first congressman to call for Bill Clinton's impeachment, Barr showed bulldog tenacity as well as an impressive command of congressional procedure and...

Believing he had conceived an ingenious way to unite his concern for animal hunger and a love of woodland walking, sometime-inventor Mike Madden set out with his new bird-feeding hat. But he soon discovered animal instinct can interfere with the best-laid...

Q: Should Congress assert more control over local voting standards in elections? YES: Our founding Fathers gave Congress the power to ensure that federal elections are conducted fairly. Why do we need federal standards for federal elections?...

Jim Wallis is a man of deep Christian faith. The editor of Sojourners magazine, he also is what he calls "convener "of Call to Renewal, a very ecumenical network of evangelical, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, African-American and mainline Protestant...

Public-policy notes from here and there, gleaned from Associated Press stories: Concerned that hunters kill on average a total of two grizzly bears each year in the state, Montana officials next year will begin requiting the state's bear hunters to...