Few world leaders rattle a saber as flamboyantly as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does. On Sunday, in a piece of vintage Chavez...

In March 2002, President George W. Bush proposed the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), a new foreign assistance program...

While running for Congress in West Texas in 1978, a young George W Bush attended a training school for Republican candidates. In a class on fundraising he was struck by inspiration. “I’ve got the greatest idea of how...

Chinese terrorists are streaming across the border. Barack Obama is a violent socialist. Mexico has been launching military attacks against America. God has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Spend a week with Republicans...

America’s evangelical Christians are anti-gay, pro-gun, keen on capital punishment and obsessed with lower taxes. And, of course, they all vote Republican. At least, that’s what vicar Giles Fraser ...

OSLO -- The dance around the golden Nobel medallion began over a 100 years ago, and is still going strong. As icon, myth, and ritual, the Nobel Prize is well secured. But ...

A month ago, Kenya fell prey to a sudden burst of post-electoral violence that has left over 1000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced...

A horde of consummate liars online appears to be ignorant to the fact that mass communication technology has its own advantages and disadvantages...

The recent turbulence surrounding the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz from the Presidency of the World Bank has underscored the need to push...

The whole sorry Wolfowitz affair looks like it is finally drawing to a close. It is hard to believe that he will stay on much longer at the World Bank, and...

As the media grows increasingly concerned with our private lives, and individuals in the west have come to understand...

NIGERIA’s fledgling democracy has gone off the rails, and SA should play its part in pressuring Abuja to put things back on track. President...

Perhaps what has now been clearly singled out as the lacunae in the International Monetary Fund, IMF’s Summary Country Outlook...

His voice was authoritative, in it anger and frustration. Who wouldn’t be after reports that exams in your care were on sale in the streets like peanuts...

Greetings again! I read today the Senate has rejected the Executive Order to extend the life of the Governance Reform Commission...

Surely no one beyond a handful of the most self-deluded Republicans in Congress was surprised at the disclosure by George Tenet, the former...