The move of President Donald Trump to visit Baghdad on Wednesday is a small, good one, amid a week of calamitous decisions. The press will…
For the enormous crowds who gathered in Tahrir Square over the past few days, the military’s announcement abrogating the new constitution…
It's Washington at its worst — Republicans continue to question this week about what UN Ambassador Susan Rice knew and when she knew it on…
Twenty years ago, Edward Djerejian, a former U.S. diplomat, famously worried that Islamists would exploit democratic elections to come to…
Moments before Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s newly elected president, took the stage to address tens of thousands of jubilant supporters in…
Critics of President Obama and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are rarely in alliance, but it happened this week as Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi was…
The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt. A military junta rules, Islamists…
Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade, who was defeated at Sunday's elections, drove himself out of office. He was undone with the help of the youth who…
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N.…
With the imminent and long-awaited collapse of the brutal Khadafy regime, President Obama’s careful, persistent, and oft-criticized policy…