Roundup: Media's Take

Michael Harris: The Politicization of Chernobyl in Belarus

Michael Harris is the public affairs manager at Index on Censorship.

G. Pascal Zachary: How France Lost Africa to the U.S.

G. Pascal Zachary, a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, is the author of Married to Africa. He is a professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite school of journalism at Arizona State University.

Jan Cienski: Why Poland is Increasingly Leaving the U.S. Behind

Jan Cienski is Warsaw correspondent for the Financial Times.WARSAW — Poland extended Barack Obama an enthusiastic greeting upon his arrival on Friday, but it's increasingly clear that relations with the United States are no longer a top priority for policymakers here. Buoyed by the confidence of a dynamic economy -- the only European Union member to have survived the global financial crisis without falling into recession -- it's the EU and Germany, Poland's historic foe, that now capture Poles' imagination.

Melissa Harris-Perry: Breaking News: Not All Black Intellectuals Think Alike

Melissa Harris-Perry is an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University

Seyward Darby: In Still-Fractured Bosnia, Ratko Mladic's Awful Legacy Lives On

Seyward Darby is the online editor of The New Republic. Previously, she was anassistant editor and correspondent for Transitions Online, a magazine based in Prague.

Mike Green: Republican Candidates Should Embrace Their Inner Teddy Roosevelt

Mike Green blogs for Foreign Policy.

Karen Sternheimer: The Hollywood Effect

Karen Sternheimer, a professor of sociology at USC, is the author, most recently, of Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility.

Jerry Bowyer: Benjamin Netanyahu Vs. Barack Obama

Jerry Bowyer is a radio and television talk show host.

Alex Massie: What Special Relationship?

Alex Massie writes for the Spectator. The foreign trips of U.S. presidents, especially Barack Obama's, are rather like the tours of a rock group. There's the ridiculous entourage and onerous security measures, of course.

Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan: Is Obama grounding JFK's space legacy?

Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan all commanded moon mission

Kapil Komireddi: Take Pakistan's Nukes, Please

Kapil Komireddi is an Indian writer.

Lane Wallace: At What Price the Moon?

Lane Wallace is an author, pilot and entrepreneur who has written several books for NASA. She won a 2006 Telly Award for her work on the documentary, Breaking the Chain.

Vladimir Ryzhkov: Swapping Jackson-Vanik for Magnitsky

Vladimir Ryzhkov, a State Duma deputy from 1993 to 2007, hosts a political talk show on Ekho Moskvy radio and is a co-founder of the opposition Party of People’s Freedom. Relations between Cold War-era foes Moscow and Washington have long been distrustful, hypocritical, peppered with mutual insinuations and patched together with the most tenuous of threads. But now, on the eve of State Duma and presidential elections, an inevitable crisis in relations is nearing that threatens to tear them apart at the seams. Last week, a group of 15 U.S.

Anne Bayefsky: Obama Is the Most Hostile Sitting U.S. President In the History of Israel

Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

Bret Stephens: An Anti-Israel President

Mr. Stephens writes the Journal's "Global View" column on foreign affairs.

Finian O'Toole: Ireland and Britain: Ends and Beginnings

Finian O'Toole is a columnist for the Irish Times.In Ireland, the phrase “guests of the nation” has a bitterly ironic flavour. It comes from the title of Frank O’Connor’s story, written in 1931 and set during the 1919-21 war of independence. The story begins with ordinary human friendship - Englishmen and Irishmen calling each other “chum”.

David Brooks: Britain Is Working

David Brooks is a columnist for the NYT.In 1920, Winston Churchill’s mother held a dinner for M. Paul Cambon to celebrate the end of his 20 years as the French ambassador to Britain. One of the guests asked Cambon what he had seen in his two decades in London.

Washington Post Editorial: Maryland's Bizarre Holocaust Law

GOV. MARTIN O’MALLEY (D) signed a bill the other day whose effect may be to exclude a company from competing to operate commuter trains in Maryland because it is partly owned by SNCF, the French government-owned railroad. The bill is bizarre, illogical and possibly self-defeating; it is testament to the absence of rational discourse in public disputes related to the Holocaust.

Jacob Weisberg: Obama's visit marks a new special relationship of the super-realists

Jacob Weisberg is an American political journalist.

David Rothkopf: Special relationship, yes. Just not unique

 David Rothkopf, a senior official in the Clinton administration, is visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making.