Col. (ret.) Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002-2005, currently teaches at The College of William & Mary. He shared his recommendations for the next U.S. president with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

Shortly before this week’s U.S.-guided, Israeli-Palestinian summit meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, I spent a day with someone who understands the complexities of Middle East peacemaking better than most: Jehan Sadat, the widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Our conversations took me back to a more optimistic period, that of the Camp David Accords, when the [...]

Top scientists, in their most authoritative report yet, have sounded the alarm about certain unstoppable ramifications of climate gone wild, such as rising seas with potentially catastrophic consequences.
That stern warning from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coincides with the final weeks of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, when those who live in [...]

Creeping authoritarianism in Venezuela may not be sparking the kind of global outcry that has accompanied President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s naked grab for control in Pakistan, but it should.
Pro-democracy critics have a responsibility to discard double standards, raise their voices and join the Venezuelan opposition in protest. What is bad for Pakistan is bad for [...]

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, backed by military muscle, could ignite a wildfire of discontent and instability that sends him scurrying from power, some critics contend. Others cheer the weekend’s strong-arm move as overdue and decisive, in fact, the proper prescription for an epidemic of Islamic extremism. Of [...]