When African National Congress youth leader Julius Malema recently proposed the mining industry’s partial nationalization – and last week asked, quite legitimately,…

The torture of prisoners in U.S. custody isn’t confined to foreign countries. For more than two weeks, inmates at California’s Pelican Bay…

At 94, Nelson Mandela is still kicking, inspiring an international day of community service on July 18th in his name. This seems…

Usually when an ex-president speaks, the nation listens. Of course, it may depend on what he says, but that's a general rule,…

The United States and Pakistan have been close geopolitical allies almost since the birth of Pakistan in 1948. They have needed each…

It’s Friday night, and the motorways are packed with cars heading for the mall. Here in Durban, the Gateway Mall is the…

This is part one of July 13 commentary (https://znetwork.org/beyond-obama-and-the-democrats-part-ii-by-ron-daniels) Congresswoman Michele Bachman, the Tea Party firebrand from Minnesota, has declared…

In my most recent article, I argued that the progressive movement must devise a strategy that looks beyond Obama and the Democrats…

Listening to Congress debate deficit deduction is like listening to a den of lions discuss the welfare of zebras. In both cases…

For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever…