Charles Dickens once wrote in his classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities that, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of...

It's just under a fortnight until France takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union and already the rest of Europe is getting a taste of what it can expect. At a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday,...

So you think the politicians are pushing the Offshore Drilling idea because it is something that will make the price of gas go down? I guess you also believed that in the 2004 election, that this Administration was going to do something...

Now that the dust has settled on Barack Obama's historic nomination as the Democratic candidate for the presidency, an equally important challenge presents itself. Who should Obama choose as his running mate for the November election?...

In 1967, America was filled with the same hope of change that it is now feeling in 2008. Forty-one years ago, Cleveland was on the verge of electing the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city. Author B. Kenneth McGee was...

North Cyprus has been divided from the rest of the island since 1974, and property prices in Northern Cyprus have not benefited to the same extent from the property boom which followed the Republic’s ascension into the EU. Property in...

Days before elections Joe Biden, the Vice-President-elect, told campaign donors: “Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle [of Obama].” Did Joe Biden really have in mind al-Qaeda? In...

Current Chinese and American monetary policies are diametrically opposed. China has based its growth and rise to economic prominence on an export-led economic model, with the United States as a primary destination for Chinese-made...

Anti-corruption strategies must go beyond blanket condemnations. Privately, at least, one must be very shrewd about where to begin and how. One must involve local people in the analysis of the costs and benefits of various kinds of...

From the historic 1965 election of Carl Stokes as mayor of Cleveland to the momentous joy felt throughout Black America after President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, the history of Black politics has been filled with highs that still...

The history books that we read as schoolchildren would have had us to believe that icons like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks were the only civil rights heroes of any consequence. However, there were countless names and...