This morning, one of my best friends, Bonnie Abaunza, called me with an emergency. Her Uncle Eddy, who has Alzheimer's, had gone missing. He had been staying with his sister in West Covina, CA., while they located a good home for him. While his...

The idea of Mubarak's thugs riding into the Cairo demonstrations on camels and brandishing whips against peaceful protesters should be one of the indelible images of 2011. The old world trying in vain to contain what is happening under their feet.

Hosni Mubarak shut...

"Some people want to make it appear that we will wake up tomorrow and find that Iran has developed the bomb. This is not the case. Sixteen US intelligence agencies have said that Iran stopped working on developing the bomb in 2003."

Nobel...

"In Egypt 40% of the population lives on less than $1 a day. 30% are illiterate. We are joining the list of Failed States. The country is deteriorating.... There is sometimes a culture of fear that holds us back. I keep telling people that...

On July 22, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was on BBC.com announcing that he has retired from public life. "The time has now come to slow down," he said. "To sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and...

The campaigns to stop the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) are providing a valuable glimpse of what the upcoming elections could look like, now that the corporate checkbooks have been unleashed. A cornerstone of Obama's financial reform programs, the goals of the CFPA are simple. They include forcing credit card...

There is a generation of leaders in the world, students of Gandhi, who used non-violent means to change their regions of the world. They are passing before our eyes. One of them was lost yesterday.

These are leaders who watched the Kennedys break all tradition and publicly stand up...

Spokesmen for President Kgalema Motlanthe had little explanation for the decision to refuse His Holiness the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the now-canceled peace conference in Johannesburg on Friday.

The best they could come up with was that the conference was World Cup-related, and they didn't want...

Apparently the Burmese people just have not been made to suffer enough, because Time.com is recommending this morning that we "give war a chance" and consider military invasion as a solution to the country's ongoing humanitarian and human rights catastrophe. There's no byline on the article. We can only assume...

It's been a while since I've wanted to go out and march in a protest. I outgrew them after college, when I got a job and got real. But today, a few decades later, I marked April 7 in my calendar. That's the day the Olympic torch moves through San...

In working with Nobel Peace Prize winners over the last seven years, I have often said that there are "Mandelas and Gandhis" sprinkled around the world who are too little recognized.

As a democracy activist under two military regimes in South Korea, Kim Dae Jung survived three assassination attempts, was...