Gary Ackerman: “This close bond has created dangerous conditions in our hemisphere.”

To try to blame that on the administration is like me trying to blame President Bush for Pluto being thrown out of the list of planets.

Anything less is demeaning to the process and to ourselves as good, decent human beings.

Today the Middle East is a very different region than the one I first encountered as a new Member of Congress in 1983.

We need two viable political parties in this country to make our democracy work.