Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

The Kimberly Process has become a whitewash; Roger Bate reports from Africa.

Against this backdrop--Pakistan careening from one crisis to the next and the U.S.-Pakistan relationship at its lowest point in years--come two contrasting books from experts on the country.

Contrary to conventional wisdom in Washington, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not interested in preserving his country's relationship with Israel, but is determined to bolster Turkey's standing in the Arab and Muslim world's at Israel's expense.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.

Do true good and true evil exist?

For a purely secular morality, weak before the ravages of relativism, moral decadence is an almost irresistible downward drive.

It is not only "conservative values" that can be reached through the use of reason alone, but also knowledge about God.