Arab Spring
February 22, 2013
Welcome to Phase Three of the Arab Spring
Islamists are waning in the Arab world. But will Obama notice?
Islamists are waning in the Arab world. But will Obama notice?
Future Perfect author Steven Johnson takes Evgeny Morozov to task for his critical book review.
Groups like Occupy Wall Street embraced the open-source logic of the Internet as an organizing principle. It explains a lot about why movements fail.
January 25, 2013
Back to Mubarak
Two years after Egypt's revolution, U.S. diplomacy comes full circle
Long after the moving images of Egypt’s Facebook-addicted, pro-democratic revolutionaries faded from Tahrir Square, they have remained firmly implanted in the minds of American observers 6,000 miles away. For much of the two years since Egypt’s uprising, many observers in Washington seemingly believed that anything in Cairo that wasn’t Mubarak was a step in a democratic direction.
