Anthony Lewis

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economi ...

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had sp ...

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, o ...

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound ...

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and fre ...

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats ...

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish trut ...

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of su ...

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica ...

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citize ...

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its ...

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to ...