Georgie Anne Geyer
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'Modernization' comes to Saudi ArabiaOct 21, 2018 8:18 am - On my first visit to the then-closed and mysterious desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1974, I soon came up against the confused psyche of many modern Saudis, and I recog...
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Geyer: The rise of greed and grievance in AmericaOct 12, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Like many Americans struck by the liberal versus conservative political and social divides in America, I have been trying to make some sense of it all these...
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Kavanaugh episode reveals America's departure from goodnessOct 05, 2018 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer One of the things that has occurred to me this last week - besides the idea of moving alone to a cabin in northern Siberia or offering myself as a ...
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Forgotten Iran-Iraq war was precursor to turmoil of todaySep 27, 2018 5:10 am - This week marked the anniversary of a war most Americans scarcely remember, but which definitively influenced our times. Most of the rest of the world has forgotten abou...
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Tax change did more to disrupt Puerto Rico than MariaSep 21, 2018 6:24 am - When you read about the tragic deaths in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, you'll find two "real" stories pulling you to tears and anger with their drama, pathos and sen...
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Middle East wars fade in the fog of WashingtonSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Last week, while the specter of The New York Times' "anonymous" editorial haunted the White House, and this week as we again mourned our losses 17 ...
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Climate is new driver of global conflictSep 06, 2018 6:19 am - When I first went overseas as a foreign correspondent in the 1960s, the style of foreign coverage fit the stories of the time. But those stories were tremendously differ...
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The stark contrast between a patriot and a poserAug 31, 2018 6:12 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer I was deep into preparing a column about Labor Day, our great end-of-summer celebration of the valiant toil of our working men and women, delving i...
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A 'Galileo Moment' on birth control for the Catholic ChurchAug 24, 2018 6:15 am - Until last week, the predominant attitude of most of the American public about the problems of "predator priests" seemed to be that it was tragic, but limited in scope. ...
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There's much at stake for the public in journalism's successAug 19, 2018 6:54 am - When I look at what seems to have become our national "conversation" on the press, it appears that every level of journalism has devolved into such an endless barrage of...