Major protests in Algeria and Sudan show that the spirit of 2011 lives on. When Wael Ghonim and I called for protests through the Facebook page “We Are All Khaled Said”... Read more »
John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. Kristina Costa is a senior fellow at... Read more »
In what is surely the most shameful decision of her current term as speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has decided that the time has come for the House to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar... Read more »
Eight years ago this month, the Egyptian people ousted their long-ruling, aging autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. People were jubilant, hopeful and forward-looking in Tahrir square. This was a rare moment: ever... Read more »
Lina Ben Mhenni is struggling to keep faith with the revolution. When we first met, in the early, heady months of the 2011 Arab Spring, the charismatic blogger-activist, then 27, was widely... Read more »
It has not been a good couple of weeks for President Trump’s poll numbers. While they’ve been relatively steady throughout his two years in the White House, the government shutdown has pushed his... Read more »
By Samer Al-Atrush and Jihen Laghmari Pressure from global lenders like the International Monetary Fund could put Tunisia’s post-revolution stability at risk, cautioned Rashid Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that is... Read more »
President Trump’s sudden announcement that he’s pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and shrinking their number in Afghanistan has prompted a new debate about American ground forces in the Middle East and... Read more »
“The general strike … will be a turning point in the history of Tunisia and a watershed moment for the country.” Leaders of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) travelled the country... Read more »
The jihadists in Egypt’s Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and begun setting up armed checkpoints to claim territory. In late 2015,... Read more »