Darkest hour before dawn, or just a flop?

16 years ago

That said I doubt this is the end of the negotiations. Too much is at stake for Iran, Israel and…

Do your duty

16 years ago

In just a few words, Aung San Suu Kyi answers a lot of questions about where she is heading: she…

Karzai is right, but O’Hanlon is wrong

16 years ago

Why wouldn't it be better to ask Karzai to govern with a parliament not altogether to his liking? That is…

Hu is the better alternative

16 years ago

The kind of cautious, low-key approach on display between the two presidents yesterday will not satisfy human rights hawks in…

Let’s be clear

16 years ago

The efforts to call into question Kosovo's independence, based on unsubstantiated allegations by a Council of Europe rapporteur who opposed…

Dominoes anyone?

16 years ago

I do hope that the outcome of last week's events in Tunisia is not only democratic but relatively liberal and…

What would MLK say?

16 years ago

That is what I might wish for our North African friends on Martin Luther King day: disciplined nonviolence and respect…

Double double toil and trouble

16 years ago

With Tunisia in a kind of constitutionally correct and militarily enforced limbo between dictatorship and the possibility of real democracy,…

Fire burn and cauldron trouble in Arabia

16 years ago

Fire burn and cauldron trouble in the Arab world

Oil, oil everywhere, and not a drop…

16 years ago

On the bigger issues, maybe a deal can be struck: distribution of at least some oil revenue, provided major infrastructure…