Democracy & Reform

If the newly banned Brotherhood turns to violence, it will only validate a more thorough and perhaps permanent crackdown.

Bahrain's proposal of a serving military officer and royal family member as its new envoy will likely complicate relations with the United States.

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.