Foreign Policy
Everything Is Data, but Data Isn’t Everything
This bumper-sticker headline, borrowed from the sociologist Pauline Bart, speaks beautifully to the latest Wikileaks outpour and the question of what it does and doesn’t mean. READ MORE >>
How America Misjudged Robert Mugabe's Bloodthirsty Regime
How the Tea Party Is Wrecking Republican Foreign Policy
The Wikileaks Strike at the Heart of American Exceptionalism
The Art and Romance of the Diplomatic Cable
How the Egyptian Elections Were Rigged: An Up-Close (And Personal) Look at the Madness
Outside a ballot counting office in Shubra el-Kheima, an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Cairo, throngs of men chant in unison to a cackling loudspeaker: "There is no god but Allah! No to vote rigging!" It’s 10 p.m. at the end of Election Day in Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood supporters are amassed against a line of metal barricades and riot police, protesting events here that represent a low mark in Egyptian electoral charades. READ MORE >>
The Humanitarian Aid Industry's Most Absurd Apologist
Writing in his diary of his erstwhile friend and wartime comrade-in-arms Randolph Churchill’s surgery for lung cancer, Evelyn Waugh noted acidly, that it was a “typical triumph of medical science to find the one part of Randoph that was not malignant and remove it.” READ MORE >>
Can William and Kate’s Wedding Really Save the British Economy?
In what seemed like a rare moment of complete political transparency, David Cameron stepped out of 10 Downing Street last week to tell us that his ministers had cheered and banged the cabinet table when he announced the news of Prince William's engagement. READ MORE >>
Scenes From Egypt's Vicious Media Crackdown
The room in the Journalist Union in the heart of downtown Cairo smells of old cigarette smoke. Soda bottles and plastic cups litter the floor. Men cluster in a circle of pleather loveseats; some tap laptop keyboards, others read. It is Day 20 of the independent Al Dustour newspaper staff’s sit-in and everyone in the room looks worn out. READ MORE >>
