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Human history is, on the whole, a miserable affair. I don’t like to make generalizations, but it’s a safe bet that the vast majority of people who have existed on this world lived short,...

In the past two weeks, the world has watched as Hosni Mubarak laid siege to Egypt. Mubarak shut down the Internet, the cellphone service and removed the police force from the streets. Panic and...

The people of Sudan are celebrating the results of a recent referendum on independence in South Sudan. The results were no surprise — everyone expected a convincing victory for independence, and the 98.8 per...

gypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, has kept the country under Emergency Law for the entire duration of his 30-year so-called “democratic” rule. This law suspends constitutional rights, allows censorship and gives police the authority to...

once lived in Egypt: the land of the pharaohs, the cradle of civilization, the most prosperous and most beautiful place in the world; a land where the Nile cuts through the desert like a...

Although the number 2011 lacks the aesthetic polish of a nice round zero at the end of it, this year, and not last, marks the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century....

I don’t get mad very often. Sure I get frustrated, discouraged and annoyed . . . but mad is one of those special emotions that I reserve for a very select group of people....