Posts Tagged ‘politics’

Ten years gone

On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened

Are American conservatives the new French?

Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success

The Gaddafi family photo album

Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?


In Egypt, the disillusionment sets in

Egypt had half a revolution that now needs to be made whole

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh can see!

It’s a miracle! How else to explain his remarkable recovery in a Saudi hospital?

Gaddafi’s mercenaries reveal all

They are the ‘smart money’ in the stockmarket battlefield and started to flee two weeks ago


For those who think London’s going to hell

Good news: it has been going to hell for 50 years, since the knife fights between Mods and Rockers

Mabrouk, ya Seif al-Islam!

Gaddafi’s son shows up in the night. Did he accidentally reveal where his father is hiding?

They are dancing in Tripoli

Suddenly, the rebels have taken the heart of Libya’s capital and Gaddafi’s end is near


When not at war, Beirut feels like Santa Monica

But the city braces as the UN accuses Hezbollah of assassinating Rafik Hariri in 2005

Hipstamatic at war

Who knew this iPhone app was wasted on Williamsburg but is at its best in Kabul

On the Palestinian request for UN recognition

A former AIPAC lobbyist says Palestine is ‘imaginary’ and unworthy of UN recognition. Surprise


And God will give Gov. Rick Perry a dog whistle

Yesterday’s prayer rally gave us Rick Perry, sectarian leader, dooming his shot at the presidency

A landmark moment in Turkey

The decades-long shadow play between the military and the state took a most dramatic turn last week

The wisdom of the New York Times comments section

Times readers know the debt ceiling debate is bogus, but it works on them anyway


Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section

The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene

Norway and the loss of innocence

It was always a myth, a very Norwegian way to boast about their own modesty

Was the Egypt revolution a ‘foreseeable surprise’?

Slate says yes, but bungles the argument


Is this really Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh?

And what was he thinking he’d gain from appearing on TV like this?

The CIA history in Syria

Americans might forget but the Syrians surely remember

Google Maps finally does a better job hiding Tel Aviv

Israel’s many satellite image “parks” change their colors


Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic

All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history

Chocolat Pupier Asian cultures album, France, 1936

A 1936 collectible album for children, embedded with the politics of its age

President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally leaves Yemen

It is a shame for Saleh, and Yemen, that it took violence to get him out