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Still Fighting in Cairo
Egypt's revolution continues into another day.
BY MOHAMED EL DAHSHAN | MARCH 7, 2011
Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone
The international community saw Muammar's Western-educated, reform-minded son as the best hope for a freer, more democratic Libya. Did they get him wrong?
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 7, 2011
Cairo 1.5
The Arab world that Barack Obama addressed in his famous speech two years ago is history. It's time for him to speak to the new one.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 4, 2011
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Libya's tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world's most repressive regimes.
BY DANIEL AYALON | MARCH 2, 2011
Oman's Renaissance Man
As reform protests grow in the Sultanate, it's worth remembering that its ruler doesn't deserve to be mentioned among the worst of the Arabian autocrats.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | MARCH 1, 2011
Oman's Days of Rage
A sleepy little sultanate erupts in unexpected anger.
BY JACKIE SPINNER | FEBRUARY 28, 2011
The End of the Arab Dream
Muammar al-Qaddafi's fall won't just mark the close of an awful dictatorship -- it will end the Arab world's disastrous half-century-long affair with utopian governing fantasies.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Help Tunisia First
In neglecting Tunisia, the Obama administration is missing a historic opportunity to lay the groundwork for the first real democracy in the Arab world.
BY J. SCOTT CARPENTER | FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Don't Abandon Tunisia
Tunisia's new democrats have made an amazing start. But they worry the world will forget them.
BY ANTHONY DWORKIN | FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Neocons and the Revolution
How the Arab revolt is rocking the neoconservative world.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The Smiling Cleric's Revolution
Iran's optimistic reformers realize they've hit a dead end.
BY AZADEH MOAVENI | FEBRUARY 16, 2011
The Ripple Effect
From Algeria to Iran and the countries in between, a look at how revolution fever is spreading across the Middle East.
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
How Russia and China See the Egyptian Revolution
In Moscow and Beijing, the powers that be are understandably unsettled by events in Cairo -- and Washington can't afford to ignore their reaction.
BY FIONA HILL | FEBRUARY 15, 2011
18 Days That Shook the World
From the first protest to Mubarak's fall, the Egyptian revolution in photos.
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Don't Fear the Brotherhood
Running away from the Islamic party is exactly what the entrenched Egyptian ruling class wants America to do.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 10, 2011
So Long, Saleh
Let's be honest: We don't need the Yemeni president to fight al Qaeda.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Egypt's Foreigner Blame Game
Hosni Mubarak tries xenophobia to stay at the helm.
BY PETER BOUCKAERT | FEBRUARY 9, 2011
What Would Marx Say about Cairo?
History repeats itself -- revolutions even more so.
BY DAVID ARMITAGE | FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Let's Try This Again
Egypt could be a watershed moment for democracy promotion in the Arab world -- but only if the United States understands how it went wrong the last time.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Gimme Shelter
Why is Hosni Mubarak clinging to power? Maybe because the life of an exiled dictator isn't what it used to be.
BY SCOTT HORTON | FEBRUARY 2, 2011
From Tahrir to Tiananmen
Why China's Great Firewall is blocking Internet searches of Egypt.
BY ABRAHAM DENMARK | FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Strait Talk
Barack Obama doesn't want you to know about it, but his administration just made the biggest move in more than a decade to open up Cuba.
BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | JANUARY 31, 2011
The Arab World's Youth Army
Meet the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JANUARY 27, 2011
Egypt's Struggle for Freedom
Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand their rights. Shame on America if it stands in the way.
BY YASSER EL-SHIMY | JANUARY 27, 2011
Whispering at Autocrats
In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage U.S. diplomacy.
BY TOM MALINOWSKI | JANUARY 25, 2011
The Post-Tunisia World
Last week's upheaval showed that citizens of the Arab world are willing and able to overthrow their dictators -- and the Obama administration has to figure out how it will respond when they do.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 21, 2011
The Unfree World
Freedom House's 2011 list highlights an ongoing democratic decline.
JANUARY 12, 2011
The Referendum Hangover
January 9 may well have been the happiest and most hopeful day Southern Sudan has seen in half a century. But there is a danger in celebrating too soon.
BY MAGGIE FICK | JANUARY 10, 2011
Palestinians Must Be Free
Ignore the smoke screen thrown up by Israel and its apologists. The real reason for the lack of an enduring Mideast peace deal is the Israeli occupation.
BY MAEN RASHID AREIKAT | DECEMBER 18, 2010
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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