President Obama is expected to announce the formal end of the American war in Iraq in a speech tomorrow. As we commemorate the end of a war, consider some of these facts and figures about the war in Iraq. Some of these numbers may shock you.
I recently spoke with Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and professor at George Mason University, who puts the agreement hammered out in Durban in context.
The Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by Tawakkol Karman is the smartest, most intense, and deeply moving things I have read about the Arab Awakening over the last year.
December 10, 1945 is the day that Universal Declaration of Human Rights entered into force. Every year, December 10 is commemorated as Human Rights Day. This year, the UN system did something a bit different.