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