Why the global warming skeptics are skeptical
It is politics, not science. Global warming skeptics fear opening the door to government regulation
The China boom is over. That could be good
Will young Chinese respond to slower economic growth by going into the arts? Or politics?
The hidden sword behind the US-Egypt NGO debacle
The NGOs were operating illegally. The Egyptian regime likes it that way
Why is it so hard to get word out of Syria?
Homs is bad enough but what is happening right now in Aleppo, in Suweida, in Deir ez-Zur?
Did Yemen just have a revolution?
Ali Abdullah Saleh is out at last but it looks like the Saleh regime remains
Romney has not gotten a job in a decade
It is a good thing Romney is rich because he is basically unemployable
The Atlantic opens our eyes to the American Civil War
The US Capitol building under construction and a country tearing itself apart
Ghost of Judith Miller returns to the NY Times
In the form of Ronen Bergman, whose cover story on Israel attacking Iran reads as propaganda
Ahmed Basiony and the cost of revolution
The protesters in Tahrir Square preached non-violence, but the Mubarak regime did not
One year on in Egypt: Art, Politics and Power
The Egyptian revolution happened in the middle of my Egypt novel and I didn’t know what to do about it
Transition: An International Review
Transition began in Uganda in 1961; by the late-1990s it was perhaps the finest magazine on earth
Beirut Art Center at the New Museum in New York
Lebanese artists address how art is changed or destroyed by its display
The ‘inheritance project’ and Mubarak’s last hours
The film hindi going on behind the scenes during the last days of Egypt’s First Family
The Fantastic Four of the Republican race
A robot, a kook, and two flawed moralizing Catholics is really the best that the GOP can offer us?
When Memphis cared
When Martin Luther King was killed, John T. Fisher showed that not only blacks in Memphis cared
Finally, propaganda I can believe in
The UK Foreign Office makes a stout defense of multiculturalism, just in time for the Olympics
Why Mubarak should not be hanged
The old man’s secrets about his odious regime are worth more to Egypt than vengeance
Expect a lot of Republican talk about the apocalypse
As Richard Nixon understood, anger and resentment are the ties that bind American conservatism
The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa
GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that
The Egyptian police beat protesters senseless
The video is hard to watch but it shows why freedom in Egypt has not yet been won
Goodbye, Earthlings
Kim Jong-il departs for some distant galaxy of coiffed hairdos and Politburo-issue safari suits
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
Fashion collective threeASFOUR brings peace to the Middle East
Hardly: Muslim – Jewish cultural ‘togetherness’ is the easy part