World Politics

Some people like to put together puzzles, the big ones with 500 or more pieces and an image to guide assembly. I never got too fired up about that kind of puzzle, but I realize now, at age 71 years, that I've been working for most of my life on a ...

Consider 9/11 and the Arab Spring of 2011 as opposing bookends to a decade of repression, fear, and fetishized violence. 9/11—the worst terrorist attack on United States soil—killed nearly 3,000 people, and the United States faced unprecedented ...