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Who needs a flat tax?
By Mitchell Orenstein WASHINGTON, DC: With America’s Republican presidential candidates lining up to…
Legal power to the people
By Vivek Maru NEW DELHI: Inspired by Anna Hazare’s hunger strike, thousands of…
Editorial: How to amputate a revolution
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: It’s official. Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the…
Hope is not a scarce resource in Iraq
By John Filson WASHINGTON, DC: US President Barack Obama recently confirmed that he…
Iran, the Arab intifada and the end of the ‘Middle East’
By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Once upon a time there was a United States naval…
The globalization of protest
By Joseph Stiglitz NEW YORK: The protest movement that began in Tunisia in…
Muckraking malarkey
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Politicians paint pallid pictures. Do we inhabit dystopia, a…
Editorial: Can you jail an idea?
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: Before I embark on this editorial, I’d like…
A thousand fatwas for Somalia
By Ken Menkhaus WASHINGTON, DC: The latest outrage by the Somali group Al-Shabaab…