Month: June 2013

Autocratic leaders in the Arab world have routinely justified their strongarm tactics by predicting that democracy would lead to bad outcomes. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein talked about the Shiite dogs. In Syria, Assad calls the...

Ross Douthat actually seems to understand that efforts to suppress the black vote in 2012 backfired and caused higher black turnout. He also understands that future efforts to suppress black turnout will fail to fix the...

Secretary of State John Kerry says that he made progress in creating conditions to restart peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it is hard to gauge. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still insists...

I suppose some Republican heads will explode when they learn that President Obama compared Nelson Mandela to George Washington. But there’s one big difference between them. They both stood up to an oppressive colonial...

It sounds like something is afoot in the Middle East and Secretary of State John Kerry might be succeeding in getting some talks going between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr. Kerry’s decision to rip up his itinerary and stay in...