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Reflecting on the Rebirth of My Birthplace A siren song is this Cairo freedom fire, the Tunisian spark now a roaring flame. A new Mecca in Tahrir Square. I …

Democracy is coming to Egypt. People outside of Egypt who consider that inconvenient to their current policies may kvetch, but ultimately they can adapt and they will, because as …

Let us begin with a “defining moment,” courtesy of the Oxford World Dictionary: Commissariat (kÉ’mɪˈsɛːrɪət) Definition: chiefly Military department for the supply of food and equipment. Origin: late …

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The reason people in Tunisia, Egypt, and other parts of the world have been influenced to some extent by the work of Wikileaks is that they have read or …

Events keep on underlining the gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Nowhere is this more true than with the disparity between the way we talk about our soldiers …

Washington - Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly …

On Monday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told a gathering in El Paso what is not new news, but what is staggering every time it’s repeated. “In both …

Cairo - President Obama’s calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as a choreographed surge of thousands of people chanting support …

By labeling climate science “the greatest HOAX perpetrated on the American people” and recently claiming “the fix is in,” Sen. James Inhofe is charging scientific experts with not mere …