"It's just one leap to think in a different way," says the Nobel Peace laureate and activist. "I believe in a non-killing future."read more

“To the US to the UK and to NATO forces: Withdraw from Afghanistan. You’re doing more damage by being here and using military force.”read more

It has supported the growing militarization of Europe, and it has backed war crimes of the United States.read more

2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has overcome tremendous adversity. A teenager at the start of the civil war in her native Liberia, she and her family were forced to go on the run, first within the country and then to Ghana. Along the way, she witnessed terrible atrocities and narrowly escaped harm herself. During the birth of her third child, sheread more

Her research provided acute insights into how the world really worked.read more

“I’ve been interested in democratic governance at the very base,” says the first woman to get the Nobel Prize in Economics.read more

The awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was monumental. It highlighted the role of women in building democracy, and it shattered prevailing Western views on the subjugation of Arab and Muslim women.read more

Tawakkul Karman, from Yemen, is the first Arab woman to get the Nobel, and she dedicated it “to all Arab revolutions."read more

Fittingly, in announcing the 2010 Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy praised Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”read more

President Obama gave a thoughtful, meditative speech in Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. But he also used sophistry to defend his actions in Afghanistan and to blur the U.S. record over the past 60 years. And his realpolitik justification for war was odd, to say the least, given the forum.read more

He doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize just because he isn’t George Bush. And he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize just on the basis of rhetoric or potential.read more

The carping about Krugman’s honor is coming from two fronts. The first group is made up of rightwingers who claim he got the prize for despising the Bush Administration. The second consists of jealous economists.read more