A review of Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Hearth of Despair; A History of Fifty Years of Independence (PublicAffairs, 2005).

Freedom's Battle explores what humanitarian intervention is and when is it called for.

As the British military drafts plans for humanitarian intervention, all eyes are on Zimbabwe's neighbors.

Gaddafi's blameshifting on AIDS in Libya exposes how many African countries try to cover up their failures by blaming the very countries that wish to help them.

Saddam's punishment was a rare instance of just deserts.

In November, to the world's astonishment, 600,000 tired and hungry Hutus emerged from the Zairian countryside and trekked back to Rwanda after a two-year exile. The migration aborted the deployment of a 15,000-strong international force about to embark for Rwanda to rescue these very refugees. Yet this deployment, though...

Record of recent decades shows that limited interventions are often successful in reducing bloodshed and ending the worst excesses of tyranny.

Pat Moyinihan was without a doubt, as Michael Barone once said, the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson.