The last time America debated amnesty for illegal aliens, I was on the other side. The year was 1986. I was a student at law school and an occasional contributor to this magazine. I believed then that immigration was a great thing, the more the better. I believed that illegal immigration resulted from government failure to set immigration quotas high enough to meet the economy's needs. And I believed that amnesty constituted a reasonable and, really, the only possible response to the problem.

Will Israel be provoked into another war this summer? Hamas in Gaza is desperately trying to start a fight. In mid-April, Hamas ended a six-month pause and resumed firing rockets into southern Israel. Three thousand rockets have landed in the past month; 80 in just the past three days.

The North Korean nuclear test--if that indeed is what it was--signals the catastrophic collapse of a dozen years of American policy.

Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, delivered a blistering attack on the Iraq war and the Bush administration. To strengthen his case against the President, Wilkerson cited a new book, The Assassins' Gate by George Packer.

A review of Gary Rosen's The Right War?: The Conservative Debate on Iraq.

French democracy has blundered its way to the right result. Most of the arguments advanced by the "non" side in Sunday's referendum on the European Union Constitution were exaggerated, misleading, or outright falsehoods.

Americans may want to change the Middle East; Europeans are understandably concerned about being changed by the Middle East.

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