Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson discusses the life of Liu Xiaobo, China’s sole laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson discusses the life of Liu Xiaobo, China’s sole laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu publicly whipped out a nomination letter at the White House; Azerbaijan's president told Trump in a news conference that he deserved the prize; Pakistan's government ...

Venezuela announced on Monday it would close its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government did not ...

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At the UN, he declared that “everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.” Behind closed doors, his envoy Steve Witkoff has been nudging European counterparts; Marco Rubio has been reminding ...

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Zhang Yadi returned home to China for a routine summer visit and ended up in jail. (Photo: hrw.org) Zhang Yadi is a 22-year-old Chinese student who completed her studies in France this summer and was ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights.” Ms. Machado, who built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements, has been in hiding since last year.

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The Oslo-based Nobel Peace Prize committee may have turned down President Trump’s latest bid for glory. Yet by honoring ...