With Fidel Castro in the hospital, Cubans in the United States and the Bush administration are enthusiastically making plans for the future of Cuba. But Cuba’s future lies in the hands of the Cuban people and they shouldn’t decide it prematurely. more>

The post of Secretary of State requires much diplomacy, suggesting to some that it is a strange fit for Ms. Rice, who is known in the State Department as contentious. No one in the international diplomatic corps, yet interviewed, seems to have a supporting thing to say about her. How will she fare? Only Bush knows for sure. more>

Witnesses who appeared before the 9-11 Commission were supposed to tell the truth. None of them did. They knew something that we don't. That is, they knew the name of the game in Washington politics, and they were all playing it to the hilt. more>

In Amsterdam News opinion, C. Virginia Fields, Norman Siegel, Robert M. Morgenthau, Arnold N. Kriss and Keith L.T. Wright are the finest candidates in New York City’s primary elections. more>