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The big steal in Zimbabwe

by Stephen Chan

[ may 08 ]

There are a lot of people running scared in ZANU-PF, and their time-honoured tactic is now to start running violent.

Conversations with a Continent

by Ron Singer

[ may 08 ]

This spring, a series of panels of experts on Africa is being held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

A grain of dissimilarity

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ may 08 ]

In Greek legend a chimere is a fearful, fire-belching monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. For Haitians it means a gangster.

Making poor nations rich

review by Elisa Nay

"The best way to help the poor is to achieve as high a level of economic freedom as possible."

All the President's Men

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

In Haiti, "unemployment is running at around 80%, corruption is so much a part of life that they might well hand out MBAs in it, and gangs like the Cannibal Army and the Little Machete Army still control the red zones."

The dubious world of religion and politics

by David V Barrett

[ january 08 ]

Which religious group really put George W Bush into the White House? The answer is not the usual suspects...

The AK Party, the failure of Islamism and traditional Turkish politics

by Ziya Meral

[ january 08 ]

How did the Western commentariat get the recent Turkish election so wrong?

Hillary Clinton and the Ghosts of 2006

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ december 07 ]

If Clinton really wants Democratic voters to judge their potential nominees on their 2006 choices, she may not like the judgments they make.

The trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo's "child soldier"

by Andy Worthington

[ november 07 ]

"Dozens of children were held in Guantánamo, and, although few were treated as badly as Omar, only a handful were ever segregated from the prison's adult population, and treated with something close to appropriate care."

Gulf of Tonkin redux?

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ october 07 ]

It's still not too late to re-empt the next war