Loyal readers will not be surprised by Libya's smooth handover of power yesterday from its revolutionary Transitional National Council (NTC)…
My wife and I spent half the day at the The National Museum of the Marine Corps not far from…
Susan Yackee at Voice of America asked a few questions today about Syria. Here are my replies, which VoA published…
I didn't even know until yesterday that white supremacist heavy metal rock bands existed. I was only slightly more aware…
Africa and India take the spotlight in this relatively quiet week: 1. Assessing Governance in Rwanda, 10:00am-11:30am, Tuesday, August 7…
It is getting hard to keep score, though this graphic from Al Jazeera English may help. Today's big news is…
Joyce Karam of Al Hayat yesterday asked me some interesting questions about Iraq, Iran, Syria and the United States. Here…
"Impractical, unenforceable and unwise" are the labels I gave yesterday to Anne-Marie Slaughter's proposal for highly conditional military aid to…
Milan Marinković writes again from Nis: The period of economic hardship Serbia is entering will afford the country's new government,…
A Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader (the Guardian says he is Mustafa al-Sheikh, identified as head of the FSA supreme…