Tracking how the Egyptian government is doing
Before the revolution, Egypt had no politics. Now it does, and the small things matter
Pay no attention to these anti-American protests in Cairo
I was in Cairo 48 hours ago: there is no great wave of anti-Americanism right now
In Syria, the sectarian atrocities will commence shortly
Atrocities are tactical, deployed to shore up loyalty. Moments like this are when they are used
Mubarak the undead
Mubarak, Sharon, Arafat: there are new actors on the stage now and the old men have been forgotten
Arafat poisoned, world fails to notice
Al Jazeera asks: was Arafat murdered using radioactive polonium, like Russian dissident Litvinenko?
Fast and Furious ‘scandal’ is a GOP hatchet job
The gun lobby lambasts the Obama administration for not seizing enough guns. An election year irony
Zadie Smith on libraries and the state of the state
How did something as fine and useful as a public library become an ideological issue?
Looking at the war in Syria
Unlike Gaddafi, Assad has international allies who will protect him so this is likely to get worse
Did Bashar al-Assad pay for this photo?
In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy brought Bashar al-Assad in from the cold. Why?
Mubarak gets life in prison, Egypt gets nothing
Mubarak earned the sentence a hundred times over but it does not feel like justice was done
In Egypt right now, it is practically Bush vs Gore
A Mohamed Morsy and Ahmed Shafiq runoff would crush those who believed in the revolution
On Egypt’s first (sort of) free and fair presidential election
For the first time ever in Egypt, no one knows in advance who will win the presidency
A few moments in the life of Hugo Chávez
A Venezuelan revolutionary to some, a dictator to others, but always colorful
What will France do about the Far Right?
Ignore Marine Le Pen. The French were just fed up with Sarkozy, not mainstream right policies
What I saw at the (Occupy May Day) revolution today
The point of today’s large rally: “Memo to the 1%, this is so not over”
What did Nixon really know about Watergate?
Ron Rosenbaum points out Nixon ran the cover up but we still don’t know if he ordered the burglary
Football on the anniversary of the Guernica bombing
The Basques cheer Real Madrid’s defeat by Bayern Munich, but it was the Germans who bombed Guernica
Does this man look like a French President?
François Hollande seems inadequate to the challenge ahead but Sarkozy proved an unserious President
Kony2012, the final indignity
What if you throw a party for one hundred million people and no one comes?
Vietnam Chante revolutionary songs, Paris, France, c1967
Employing everything from martial chants to opera in support of revolution in Vietnam
Mad Men is populated by Richard Nixon’s silent majority
When it comes to race, has Mad Men left the biggest lie until last?
Al Jazeera goes undercover in Syria
Al Jazeera has become the essential media; even US networks that demonize it rely on its video feed
Did Gaddafi give Sarkozy 50m euros?
France’s dealings in Africa have often been sordid but Libya had seemed a break from this tradition