Qaddafi's Death on Display

Here’s the thing about dictators: as sticky as they are when they’re in power, it’s even harder to deal with them once they’re gone.

The Eurozone Debt Crisis

Eight Reasons Why This Will Not Be “The Chinese Century”

We have learned by now to expect and to fear the masked army of the internet: Anonymous.

Last week, the Kenyan government officially declared an “offensive military agenda,” an action that many are calling Kenya's first war. Interestingly, this war is not with another nation, but with Al-Shabaab – an extremist militia splinter group of Al-Qaeda that has controlled large parts of Somalia for years.

This week, the long captured soldier Gilad Shalit will be released in exchange for nearly 1,000 Palestinian prisoners convicted – in Israeli courts – for list of crimes of varying degrees of violence.

This past Tuesday, United States law enforcement announced that they had foiled a plot by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US in Washington, DC.

The Persecution of the Roma in Europe

Washington needs to slowly and gently distance itself from Islamabad. Here’s a start.

Kenya's state politics of distraction and marginalization

Syria: The Danger of Diversity

The future of Latin America has never been brighter, but it still faces tremendous challenges.

The relative peace that has followed the Korean War ended with an explosion in March of last year, when North Korea torpedoed a South Korean naval ship.

“I don’t want the country of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to be largely Muslim, or for Turkish or Arabic to be spoken in large areas, that women will wear headscarves and the daily rhythm is set by the call of the muezzin. If I want to experience that, I can just take a vacation in the Orient.”