Robin Wright carves up the Middle East
Wright is wrong and her analysis risks looking prescriptive rather than descriptive
Was the coup in Egypt even necessary?
Morsi might have been forced from power anyway, but the military short circuited that
Draft articles of impeachment for Morsi now
Even elected leaders can lose their legitimacy; Egypt needs a legal statement to that effect
Sanity on immigration policy, near at last
Republicans still hate Hispanic cultural influence but they’re relenting on immigration policy
Video drones over Taksim Square in Istanbul
When the police control the streets, video drones can see what they are up to
Where you can ignore the US ambassador
What presidential donors have to give to get a vacation spot ambassadorship
Egypt Independent is strangled in its crib
Independent journalism is a bad business everywhere but in Egypt politics makes it worse
How great is India’s magazine The Caravan?
Long form reportage, ruthlessly edited, about India and elsewhere. Now you know
The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on
Israel, Prisoner X, and widely known secrets
Israeli denials about the anonymous prisoner who committed ‘suicide’ confirm how valuable he was
The Aldo Moro assassination, Reggio-Emilia, Italy, 1978
A prized book of Italian newspapers and a dead terrorist; is there a connection?
My twenty years in Egypt
My first trip to Cairo was in 1992. Here are some thoughts on how it has changed
On Egypt’s constitutional referendum
The Muslim Brotherhood has changed its political strategy, a loss for everyone
Bal Thackeray dying in India, violence expected
Of course it is: violence is the Shiv Sena default reaction to anything they don’t like
What is racist about Romney’s 47 percent claim?
The late Lee Atwater makes it clear: Romney’s 47 percent drives racists closer to rich white people
A stars-aligning moment to pass immigration reform
For the first time, Republicans need immigration reform as much as Democrats have always wanted it
What Obama lost in this campaign
Even with victory, Obama missed the chance to engineer a realignment of the US electorate
Rendition and torture: how it happened
Everyone knows by now that the US and UK tortured captives. That should still shock us
Car bomb in Beirut, invisible map revealed
Even in peacetime, every Beiruti knows which sect ‘owns’ each district
New York Times op-ed on Syria is wrong about the Obama doctrine
How not to make the case for US intervention in Syria
The embassy mobs and Obama’s ‘failure’ in the Middle East
Is Obama’s policy in the Middle East in ‘epic collapse’? Hardly. But serious people have doubts now
Latest in the battle over the Mohamed Mahmoud mural
The New York Times blog The Lede picks up the battle over street art in Cairo
The amazing mural on Mohamed Mahmoud that was just painted over
What a loss for Cairo, artistically as much as politically
How the US is playing into the hands of the Salafiyeen
The US just told the Salafiyeen they have the power to affect aid talks. Big mistake