The single greatest injustice facing American parents today is that they are financially forced to send their children to schools not of their choosing. We need permanent funding for Jewish day schools.
The aim is to set standards for the global $55 billion export business in guns, tanks, attack helicopters, jet fighters, missiles and other conventional weapons.
It's good to know they have brokered a power-sharing deal in Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is happy. Roberto Micheletti said he had made a "significant con...
Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's reformist finance minister, knows something about living on the edge.
His memoir paints an uncanny sense of what is was like growing up in Zimbabwe as a child, and returning to this country as an adult in the midst of the current political crisis under Robert Mugabe.
Last week, Oakland, the Bay Area and the world lost a giant of man with the passing of Dr. Robert Scott. Scott was an humanitarian of the highest order.
Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.
Before the US hands over a single dollar of development aid to Zimbabwe, there should be an internationally supervised program of government reform and audit, and a lifting of media restrictions.
President Obama makes his debut appearance at the United Nations this week, attending and presiding over a breathless array of events far beyond the usual schedule for U.S. presidents.
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in
These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and A Rare Bit of Good News Out of Pakistan SI Analysis: The US ...
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights recently reported that President Mugabe did not sign the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Well, he signed half of i...
If Alan Duncan and his ilk think it's tough to be a politician, they might give some thought to Morgan Tsvangirai.
Zimbabwe is in an eerily similar situation to the one that Rwanda was experiencing before its genocide.
From Iran to Pakistan, information access puts authoritarian rulers in a dilemma.
At the International AIDS Society conference in Capetown South Africa this past week, leading AIDS and human rights groups from the region launched an impressive and innovative campaign.
Wrong's new book, It's Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, confronts the question of African corruption head on and finds there's plenty of blame to go around.
I remember as a child that whenever the 4th of July rolled around, I would try earnestly to reflect on the significance of the holiday. That is not an...
Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
By Sue Mbaya and Memory Mushawenyoka NAIROBI--When I was asked recently to reflect on this year's Day of the African Child as a policy advisor and a ...
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