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The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership awards $5 million to an exceptional African political leader. According to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation website, the requirements for the prize are ...

Humans are easily influenced by the opinions of others but social media networks like Reddit and Digg may ...

The British Commission on Digital Democracy is considering “Parliament 2.0”, a vision of the future in which citizens ...

The worrying developments in UK internet freedom over the last year make predictions for 2014 gloomy to say ...

Since the last great American banker, New Yorker John Pierpont Morgan, saved the American financial industry in 1907, ...

Tigers are in trouble. The largest of the world’s cats, a species that’s existed for two million years, ...

I once had a reader tell me I have a “heart of stone” and that I’m the kind ...

When someone is in a deep hole, the way to get out of it is to first – ...

The withholding of residency visas for reporters from Bloomberg News and The New York Times (NYT) can be ...

I first heard about NJ’s Shadow Governments when I was invited to a press conference by State Senator Loretta ...

As the body of Nelson Mandela was heading for its final rest in the rural community where he ...

The Public Chamber of Russia estimated there were 500,000 alcohol-related deaths annually in the country.

As America stands upon a great and dangerous precipice, millions of Americans involve themselves battling against an ever-emerging ...

Try taking a guess where Ed Cox, the Republican Party Committee chairman for New York state, got his ...

Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) levels peaked in 2007, and have been flat or declining since.

It would be churlish not to congratulate the WTO and especially Roberto Azevêdo, its dynamic director-general, for successfully ...

As the election campaign moved from the summer to the early fall, most political professionals, studying polls and ...

How to conduct a Traffic Study Listening to the 5 hours of riveting hearings on the Port Authority ...

I saw my first Leatherback turtle in the Florida Keys long before that string of gorgeous islands became ...

It has been widely reported that American reporters in China are having problems getting their residency visas renewed ...

Bank of America, Wells Fargo... it doesn't seem to really matter how big or prestigious a lender is. ...

The sad truth is that Canada fares poorly among wealthy nations on environmental performance. A recent ranking by ...

Nelson Mandela made a conscious decision to let go of hatred, and eventually he bequeathed to the world ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s death signals not only the passing away of a gifted politician. It is the death ...

Just days before he died Nelson Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe Mandela told SABC, that her father (from his first ...

At some point, Congress will have to put the federal budget on “a sustainable path for the long ...

President Obama has a real chance to become a great American president if he can, working with Congress, ...