I'll have a major piece on Egypt out tomorrow. Waiting to gather some established facts.

What occurred  was a massacre (see El Amrani at The Arabist for his take on the possible motivations for the crackdown).  This wasn...

My latest @ The Week -  Obamacare and the confused constitution of conservative identity

Iraq is suffering greatly. On Saturday, co-ordinated car bombings killed over  50 people . On Sunday,  more than 60  civilians wer...

Note - links to my more recent comments on free speech - up to late 2015 - follow at the end of this post. Recent media acquisitions (li...

‘’We should deal with the issue through a realistic approach." Hassan Rouhani , August 6 th  2013 The Obama Administration shoul...

This incident reeks of Hizballah. As I argued earlier this week, the organization is facing major pressure both inside and outside Leban...

Earlier today I participated ( link here ) in a BBC World Service discussion on the topic of US-Russia relations. I speak at 19.10, 22.10 ...

I've written about foreign policy issues a lot over the past few days. I think it's time for something a little lighter. So, with ...

The US-Al Qa'ida security alert is continuing.  However, so is the Syrian civil war. In that vein, I thought I'd outline a few...