Global-related Aug 27, 2013

CCP's plan for pro-democracy voices: repression

by Noah Feldman

A semisecret directive from the senior members of the Chinese Communist Party tells us how President Xi Jinping plans to manage pro-democracy voices in China: by shutting them down.

Global-related Aug 27, 2013

The failure of Tahrir Square 2011

by Ted Rall

Two years ago, when I was in the Occupy movement, my comrades and I argued about revolution. Was revolution necessary? What is it? The split that destroyed our movement — as it did the Left during the 1960s — pitted revolutionaries against reformists. The ...

Global-related Aug 13, 2013

Hope amid Mideast turmoil

by Tony Blair

No one put the chances of reviving the Israel-Palestine peace process at more than minimal. Yet it has happened. Now is not the time for despair in the Middle East.

Global-related Jul 23, 2013

Streets worldwide showing the failings of democracy

by Pankaj Mishra

Historians examining our era will marvel at the proliferation of street protests defining the appeal of political community in old and new democracies.

Global-related Jul 16, 2013

Returning to Egypt's preferable state of tyranny

by George Will

Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi knows neither Thomas Jefferson’s advice that “great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities” nor the description of Martin Van Buren as a politician who “rowed to his object with muffled oars.” Having won just 52 percent of ...

Global-related Jul 16, 2013

What Egypt can learn from Iraq

by Meghan L. O'sullivan

While arguing over the merits of continuing U.S. aid to Egypt, commentators and analysts tend to agree on two main points. First, there is a general consensus on what President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood got wrong. Second, virtually all Western observers are ...