Nation Topics - Sudan | The Nation

Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

Throughout the Arab world, we are witnessing nothing less than the awakening of several phenomena that are critical for stable statehood.

Carter Vaughn Finley's timely new history contends that Turkey's development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.

The cost of food skyrockets as oil prices rise, triggering political unrest.

Never in memory have so many unjust or simply despicable rulers felt quite so nervous in the presence of unarmed humanity. And there has to be joy and hope in that alone.

Finally, after decades of catastrophic civil war, Africa may give birth to a new nation.

The International Criminal Court has had setbacks—but it's already having an impact.

Three steps to establish a politics of global warming.

 Is the world's future resource map tilting East?

Listen to an audiocast of remarks by "humanity's avenger," Luis Moreno-Ocampo, first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.