Watch excerpts from our recent interview with the author of “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda” and “They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers.”

Watch excerpts from newly-announced GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s April 28, 2011 speech at the National Press Club.

No one should think intervention in Libya will be easy or simple, writes religious studies professor Charles Mathewes. "Obama’s message to the nation was a reminder that he surely doesn't."

To mark Human Rights Day on December 10 and the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize in absentia to jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, read an essay about a new book on human rights in history and religion's role in the human rights movement.

A new book chronicles the people and places across Africa and Asia where Islam and Christianity meet and often clash.

"In a lot of places where there had been conflict in the name of religion there is now peace in the name of religion, and that's a hopeful sign."

Some ethicists and philosophers say economic sanctions should be subject to the same moral scrutiny given to the use of military force and should require the same level of ethical justification as acts of war.

Was it worth it? Was it just? Did the good exceed the harm? William Galston and Michael Cromartie discuss the costs and consequences of the Iraq war as the US ends its combat mssion.

"We must determine whether the irrevocable past will endure like a nightmare in our efforts at world leadership."

"President Obama needed to provide a more affirmative vision of successes in Iraq, a vision that casts it as a victory over totalitarianism, which has always been a central aspect of America's civilizing mission."