We ignore Africa at our peril.

In vital resources -- oil, copper, diamonds, gold, timber and more -- the continent is rich beyond imagination.

Indeed, Africa is more breadbasket than basket case. The United States is projected to import some 25 percent of its oil from Western...

Cowritten with Leonard Greenhalgh

Chrysler has been forced into bankruptcy and GM is next in line. At the same time, many banks recently failed the "stress test" and, after already receiving tens of billions in bailout funds, will require billions of dollars in additional capital to...

I remember the hot summer of '63. I was 22 years old, leading demonstrations in Greensboro, N.C. to open up access to public facilities -- restaurants, movie theaters, all those establishments that had been closed to blacks for so long. Because we were disturbing the peace as defined by Jim...

The world food crisis - the "silent tsunami" - now threatens some 100 million people across the world. Food riots in Haiti, Egypt and Ethiopia have brought it to international attention. World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick says that 33 countries are at risk of food-related upheaval. Famine may revisit...

It's the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands of young men and women fill the streets, lining up, moving from place to place. They are looking for work, any work; work that might pay them enough...

Forty years later we focus on the beliefs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., embraced by our nation immediately after his death.

Prior to his assassination, Dr. King was hated and often despised by the American government which maintained a strong assault on his character throughout his life. Hoover, leading...