Charles Trueheart

A vote for France’s first female president may not deliver the political change the country wants.

Will Nicolas Sarkozy vanquish his mentor Jacques Chirac to become France's first "American" president?

The challenge of raising expatriated children

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is the world's first war-crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. The major powers have accepted the tribunal's jurisdiction and submitted to its authority, which is far broader than most people understand. Although not even idealists would have predicted it a decade ago, something like this tribunal may soon become a permanent feature in the world

Seamless multimedia worship, round-the-clock niches of work and service, spiritual guidance, and a place to belong: in communities around the country the old order gives way to the new