Swords Into Plowshares

Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of his most important (and controversial) speeches at Riverside Church in ...

In unpublished written testimony submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee following his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, Jim M...

Equatorial Guinea, the third-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa and home of Africa's longest-serving dictator, has expressed in...

Earlier today Donald Trump "unsigned" the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement involving twelve Pacific Rim states...

Human rights are constantly being threatened. In Kim’s North Korea, the news is heavily censored, dissent is punished harshly, and the basi...

The Washington Post  has begun a three-part online series on border walls titled "Raising Barriers." The first part, published ye...

Morning Edition , the morning news program heard nationwide on National Public Radio, today featured a story on the U.S. Justice Departmen...

On Thursday, the French corruption case against Teodoro Nguema Obiang--second vice president of Equatorial Guinea and heir apparent to his ...

Much of our history has been created by women whose names most people don't remember or never even knew. One of those women, Patricia D...

Father Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest best known for his opposition to the Vietnam War, has passed away in New York City just days short ...

For the first time in its seventy-year history, the United Nations is engaged in an open and transparent process to select a secretary-gene...