Georgie Anne Geyer

Political extremes don’t tell the full story on the border

November 30, 2018 at 6:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Not surprisingly, the "riots" along the southern border this week, with hundreds of Central Americans throwing themselves against the "walls" of the United States, have frightened many Americans....

Reason is outshouted at the border

November 8, 2018 at 6:09 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- More than 30 years ago, I began going down to the U.S.-Mexican border on a regular basis. I was a correspondent covering Latin America, and I knew, appreciated...

From the desk of … Corruption is at the heart of southern immigration crisis

October 25, 2018 at 6:00 a.m.

From Honduras and Guatemala they came. Marching and staggering through the rain and heat and sometimes swimming across the tropical rivers of southern Mexico. Faces stoic, but with a strange,...

Rational approach is not a new idea

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

As a foreign correspondent who was able to cross national borders and chart thematic changes in whole regions, I look back on one of the most revealing moments — before...

A glimmer of hope for the new year

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Since Donald J. Trump became president almost a year ago, many of us have been diligently trying to figure out what his foreign policy is.He likes Russia, no question about...

While bombs go off, our national identity crisis burns on

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

The phrase “self-radicalization” seems to be emerging as a regular part of the national discourse. Every vicious nobody who wants to blaze his name into eternity by planting a bomb...

Swimming upstream is a journalist’s job

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

In mid-November, just west of the Windy City, one of America’s most distinguished journalists recalled how hard it is, even in a profession as individualistic as ours, to take a...

Russia and China are winners during Trump’s Asia trip

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

President Trump’s lengthy trip to Asia was top-notch theater — much like a matinee-to-late show all rolled up into one performance — but it was hard to find even one...

Historical resentments feed conspiratorial atmosphere

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Even the careful reader of the news these days could be forgiven for believing that the driving forces behind world events are economic.The White House repeats jobs, jobs, jobs. The...

America’s Protestant foundation deserves celebration

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

We are overwhelmed every day by stories about religions on the margins of the American experience.But there is one religion we almost never see in the news these days. And...

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