ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Facing the old slave market from the sea, you can try to imagine what it was like to arrive here as a captive in the 1500s, with a future of forced servitude as your fate. You can try, but you can never grasp the totality of the horror. In those long-gone [...]

The opening salvo of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “global listening tour” — a swing through Asia — has produced constructive effects and positioned the United States for renewed leadership in the region.
Nearly a year ago, I recommended that the next American presidential administration focus early and often on the Asia-Pacific area, [...]

To unify Democrats, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois – should he secure the party’s nomination – will have to offer U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York the vice presidency. And that combination, though improbable, would be the party’s dream team. On the Republican side, the strongest running mate for U.S. Sen. John McCain [...]

WASHINGTON — More than two centuries after America’s first president, George Washington, dramatically freed his personal slaves, President George W. Bush grapples with the issue of involuntarily subjugated people. So will his successor, which leads me to ask:
Will human trafficking, as it is now known, ever end? Equally important, does anyone care?

When I wrote about presidential dream tickets nearly a year ago, with U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona leading Republicans and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois as the No. 2 for Democrats, criticism rained from many directions.
“There is no way McCain will be the Republican nominee,” hundreds of people said. “Obama does not have [...]

Stephen Wayne, a Georgetown University expert on the American presidency, has written 11 books, including The Road to the White House. As part of his research on the 2008 presidential-nomination process, Wayne is conducting an evaluation of U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat from New York. He discussed his preliminary assessment with foreign-affairs columnist [...]