Nation’s stalled politics stand in sharp contrast to revolutionary changes in Egypt and Tunisia.
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Islamists hit a crossroads in Tunisia
Ennahda has been marginalizing itself from other committed democratic groups with its knee-jerk reaction to post-assassination unrest.
Kenya’s first presidential debate: serious, weird, robust
The debate was something of an arrival for Kenya’s fraught democracy, with hard-hitting questions, issue-based discussions, and plenty of quirks and quips.
A final campaign speech for Obama’s State of the Union
The president has proven less-than-adept at using campaign-style addresses to shape the contours of the national debate.
With new N. Korea nuke test, which way does China turn?
The nation may have little choice but to turn up the heat, but whether it will try to do so by degrees or or all at once remains to be seen.
Peek at new Russian drone highlights rearmament problems
With resource poverty, corruption and the imperative to buy domestically-made hardware, the nation faces a challenge in getting its military up to date.
Ahmadinejad going out swinging
The outgoing president’s political battling is likely an attempt to secure his position after he leaves office.
(Not so) gay Paree
The nation’s long fight over the gay-marriage issue reveals a conservative bent.
Kenya’s elections, at home and abroad
Despite international worries over the dubious legal situation of some of the nation’s leading politicos, Kenyans try to make peace at home a reality.
U.S. drone wars belatedly go mainstream
Targeted killings now have cultural caché. And they aren’t going away.
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