Ordinary Americans are already responding with their characteristic generosity to the earthquake in Haiti. Aside…

The awful news from Haiti is still unclear, but one fact stands out already. On…

I lived in southern Africa from 1978-83, and published a book about the anti-apartheid…

(Captions to photos follow the post) If you have looked at a newspaper…

Today the New York Times has a story about the possible prisoner exchange between Israel…

Regular visitors to this site are familiar with Elliott Abrams, the neoconservative former Bush administration…

James North writes Alex de Waal has decades of experience in Sudan and Darfur, and his point of view is valuable, as is this blog: “Making Sense of Darfur.” His latest post is particularly useful: * He endorses the measured,…

James North writes: Mahmood Mamdani surprised me during our recent talk in his office up at Columbia University; he said no one at all from the Darfur solidarity movement has approached him to discuss his just-published Saviors and Survivors, (aside…

James North writes: The New Yorker’s legendary fact-checkers must have taken time off recently, when Philip Gourevitch’s long look at Rwanda 15 years after the genocide (May 4) passed through their department. Not only is the article so one-sided that…

James North writes: Those of us with experience in Africa are regularly annoyed by the mainstream media coverage of the continent. We do not object in general to the reporting about war and hunger, which is sometimes accurate and has…