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10 Questions for Shimon Peres
Which are you prouder of establishing--the Oslo peace accords or Israel's nuclear program? Peace. Even though the peace failed? It didn't fail. It's not yet...
Inside Cairo's Bloodletting: The Egyptian Junta's True Colors
The dead were buried on Monday, more than two dozen Christian Egyptian protesters mowed down by their own military, an army that had won praise back in February...
Exclusive: Clinton Talks Libya, China and the Future of American Influence
TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent trip to Libya, Oman, Afghanistan and Pakistan. On Oct. 19, he...
The Empire Strikes Back: Putin Sends in the Storm Troopers
Vladimir Putin is far from panic, but the reaction of his government shows it is quite alarmed at the post-election protests this week in Russia's biggest...
How a New York City-Based Activist Group Became a Player in Syria
It was the dead of night in the besieged Syrian town of Homs in late February, but lights were still on two floors up in a brick building off Manhattan's Union...
Who Will Save Syria?
The Debate over Syria A rising death toll raises the question: To intervene or not? Why We Must Fight Alongside the Rebels By Shadi Hamid The Syrian uprising...
Why Turkey's Erdogan Is Greeted like a Rock Star in Egypt
Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan -- a hero on the Arab street -- has a habit of irritating generals, even when he doesn't mean to. This week,...
To The Shores of Benghazi…
The news of the killing of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, in an attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is bitter. It was Benghazi, after all,...
The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War
When the history of Facebook-enabled activism is written, the backlash against the Susan G. Komen foundation’s decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood...
Islamists Set the Pace in Egypt's Presidential Race, but Runoff Is Likely
Updated: May 25, 2011 at 5:15 a.m. EST Farmers and laborers have waited for hours in a long line outside the polling station in the impoverished village of...
Why the New Egyptian President’s Biggest Worry Could Be the Economy
The newly elected President of Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy, has taken on one of the most daunting jobs in the world. He’ll have to restore...
Open Up
CHINA Microblogging Pushes the Envelope China's state-controlled news outlets, which compete fiercely for stories and revenue, are starting to push back in a...
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2 | Inbox BRIEFING 7 | Verbatim 8 | LightBox Against the tide in flooded Pakistan 10 | World Bloody revolt in Yemen; Western youth look to Asia 12 | Nation...
Islamists Set the Pace, But Egypt’s Presidential Race Looks Set to Go to a Runoff
Farmers and laborers have waited for hours in a long line outside the polling station in the impoverished village of Kirdasah, on Cairo’s western outskirts, but...
Iran Cracks Down on a Major Threat: Water-Gun Fights
With the sting of the Arab Spring still lingering, it takes nothing more than a water gun to alarm governments these days. Young people splashing each other with...
Must Reads from Around the World: Jan. 27, 2012
Geopolitics - Foreign Policy takes an astute look at how Iran – contrary to its own initial hopes and others’ fears – has failed to benefit from the Arab Spring...
U.S. Evangelicals See Political, Religious Cause in Syria Conflict
Catholic Father Paolo Dall’Oglio of Syria’s Mar Musa monastery stood before Rock Springs Congregational United Church of Christ in Arlington, Virginia, on July...
Five Reasons to Visit Beirut
While the rest of the region has been caught up in the turmoil of the Arab Spring, democratic, cosmopolitan Lebanon has been a haven of calm. Local sectarian...
