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…
African presidents have the subject of considerable scrutiny and superficial and largely irrelevant rankings over the past decade.
The…
Africa can feed itself in a generation. It can achieve this by harnessing abundant technologies that are available worldwide, expanding…
Many reform results fall below expectations in the development arena, especially in the public sector. Do the reforms just need more time…
Advances of science may take much longer to translate into helpful societal actions without deliberate linkages among policy makers,…