What will Friday prayers bring?

15 years ago

I can't remember a time I looked forward so much to Friday, with anticipation but also with trepidation.

Behind Iraq’s protests, a call for better democracy

15 years ago

No need anyway for Iraq to be a model any longer--the Arab countries seem to be in a race to…

To intervene or not to intervene

15 years ago

I find myself sympathetic with former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley, who argued last night on CNN for a more…

Mad north northwest

15 years ago

These are not madmen. They are men so attached to power that they cannot imagine living without it.

Trying to see the humor in it

15 years ago

Three video items that have come to may attention today.

Think ahead to building a Libyan state

15 years ago

We have not done brilliantly well in any of the post-conflict reconstruction efforts of the past 20 years, but a…

UN 1, Gaddafi 0 but no one knows how much time is left

15 years ago

e need to see the end of the Colonel. How and when that will occur is anyone's guess. He could…

So much to keep track of!

15 years ago

a quick update on the revolutions of 2011 might be in order

The UN begins to roll

15 years ago

Gaddafi and his sons seem determined, as Saif put it today, "to live and die in Libya." It will be…

The UN needs to hustle

15 years ago

The UN needs to hustle. People are dying.