While most of the rest of the world, minus Glenn Beck, was celebrating the overthrow of one of the world's most repressive dictatorships, over in Israel – which bills itself as the only real democracy in the region – they were sour-faced and ready to...
Jimmy Carter’s Gift of ‘Apartheid’
Eclipsed by the events in Egypt, news from its little neighbor has not gleaned much notice save for media angst that Egyptian democracy might not be as genial as was the Mubarak dictatorship to the relentless, long-term ethnic cleansing of an indigenous people, the...
The Freedom Reading List
With Hosni Mubarak gone, let's do a little Egyptian math on the Mubarak years. According to experts, the fortune amassed by Egypt's former president and his two sons (both billionaires) could reach $70 billion. That includes funds in secret offshore bank accounts and...
Sunday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 12 Wounded
A False Peace: Egypt’s Relationship with Israel — and Ours
Saturday: 50 Iraqis Killed, 83 Wounded
The Brotherhood Bogeyman
While the many and far-reaching implications of Friday's transfer of power to what is apparently a military junta in Egypt have yet to be absorbed in Washington, the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in any transition to a more democratic regime is certain to figure high...
People Power Pushes Mubarak Out
CAIRO -- Several hundred thousand protesters massed in Cairo's central Tahrir Square exploded into joy Friday, after Vice-President Omar Suleiman made the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had resigned as president of Egypt after three decades in office. Finally heeding...
Egypt’s US-Armed Military in Transitory Commanding Role
When embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reluctantly called it quits after more than two weeks of mass demonstrations against his 30-year-old authoritarian regime, he temporarily turned over the country to an institution trained, armed and nurtured by the...


