The 'Harlem Shake' is becoming a new form of protest in the Middle East
Earlier this week, we reported on the controversy in Tunisia and Egypt over some "Harlem Shake" videos, which have provoked arrests and an investigation by the Tunisian Ministry of Education, and the...
View ArticleHow are Palestinians reacting to Israel’s ‘Palestinian-only’ buses?
On Monday, the Israeli government launched a new bus service to shuttle Palestinian day laborers from the West Bank town of Qalqiliya to Israeli cities where they are employed. Ynet outlined the...
View ArticleDid the U.S. just create a new category for best-friend allies?
Did the United States just create a new designation for its special relationship with Israel? Somenewssourcesseem to think so. TheNational put it succinctly: It was widely reported last week that this...
View ArticleThe long, international, and occasionally dignified history of the filibuster
Sure, Senator Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster on Wednesday was dramatic in the moment. But in the history of filibusters, it's unexceptional. After all, it was the ninth-longest in U.S. Senate history,...
View ArticleWhat is Ashley Judd’s foreign policy?
After several months of will-she-won't-she, today brought a fresh wave of speculation that actress Ashley Judd will challenge Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky Senate seat in 2014. It's still unclear...
View ArticleShould men be discriminated against on International Women’s Day?
People across the world are celebrating International Women's Day today as both a reminder of the struggles women face and a celebration of their achievements and progress since the holiday's...
View ArticleSelf-immolation in Bulgaria isn't as new as you might think
For the fourth time in one month, a Bulgarian citizen has self-immolated in an apparent protest against economic hardship and political corruption. The BBC reports: The man, 52, threw petrol over...
View ArticleWhat five years of civilian governance in Pakistan looks like
For the first time in Pakistan's history, a democratically elected civilian government has successfully finished its five-year term -- despite a flurry of anti-government protests. But what does that...
View ArticleThe new Burma in one photo
The presence of Aung San Suu Kyi in the front row of a military parade (above, next to Major General Zaw Win) earlier today was stunning to many observers: both for how unthinkable her presence would...
View ArticleIran gains upper hand in ice cream cold war with United States
Iran may have just scored a massive, albeit largely symbolic, victory in its cold war with the United States. And it is a very cold war -- because the battle being waged is over ice cream. On Monday,...
View ArticlePakistani youth may be the most pessimistic demographic in the world
Ahead of Pakistan's May 11 general election -- the first time in the country's history that an elected government is expected to (peacefully) hand over power to another elected government -- the...
View ArticleRick Sanchez wages flame war against Muslim Brotherhood Twitter feed
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo's Twitter feed disappeared for about an hour today following an online sparring match with a feed operated by the office of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy over Jon...
View ArticlePetitioner objects to Pakistani candidate's lack of beard
In one of the odder reasons we've come across for stonewalling a politician's bid for office, a voter has formally objected to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif's candidacy in...
View ArticleObama may be taking a pay cut, but he's no president of Uruguay
A day after President Obama announced that he will give back five percent of his salary this year in solidarity with federal workers facing furloughs, skimming $20,000 from his $400,000 annual wage,...
View ArticleHow worried should we be about Kim Jong Un's youth?
We may not know much about the man currently plowing full speed ahead toward international nuclear crisis, but one thing we do know for sure is that he is young -- 29 or 30. And this, most news...
View ArticleThe strangest thing about Putin's appearance on Finland's secret criminal...
On Wednesday we received the bizarre news that Russian President Vladimir Putin's name had mistakenly ended up on a secret criminal blacklist compiled by Finnish police. Those placed on the list face...
View ArticleHow influential was that Reinhart-Rogoff paper, exactly?
The world of anti-austerians is abuzz (and maybe somewhat gleeful?) this afternoon about news that a paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff -- the paper for those policymakers looking for serious...
View ArticleThe Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral
After being carried through the streets of London in a flag-draped coffin aboard a gun carriage, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this morning in St. Paul's Cathedral....
View ArticleMcCain: On foreign policy, I may have more in common with Obama than with...
Sen. John McCain sounded a civil note at the beginning of his remarks at a Center for a New American Security event on Thursday, April 18. "What Republicans need now is a vigourous contest on ideas on...
View ArticleCould John McCain's roadmap for intervening in Syria work?
Amid international accusations of chemical weapons use by Assad government forces in Syria's civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry told NATO members on Tuesday that the alliance should consider...
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