Democracy & Reform

As Israeli and Palestinian negotiators pursue their latest round of talks, hate speech remains one of many daunting obstacles to long-term peace. It is one thing for a government to tolerate private hate speech, but quite a different and more serious matter for it to actually produce, disseminate, or subsidize

Political and fiscal pressure is pulling Libya apart at the seams and creating conditions that threaten neighboring countries.

The governing Islamist party will emerge from recent setbacks as a much weaker player, and more obstacles are likely to come.

Cutting aid to Egypt would only hurt U.S. interests there without helping democracy, stability, or any other cause.

Despite its longstanding reputation as a pro-extremist faction, Tunisia's governing an-Nahda party may finally be breaking with the radical fringe.

The regime's cadres have held together through two years of war, and they will likely continue doing so unless Washington and its allies present them with a stark choice: leave and live, or stay and die.

If the regime wins, as seems increasingly likely, post-war Syria will be a more brutal and anarchic place than ever before.

Despite the vice president's resignation, the dispersal of pro-Morsi protests has received strong support among the security forces and political elite, signaling the potential for more violence in the coming days.

The Moroccan royal pardon of Spanish pedophile Daniel Galvan Vina has had a litany of political implications.