Mubarak tries another kind of crackdown

14 years ago

This is a crackdown of another kind, a kind that will allow the regime to tell the Americans they didn't…

The audacity of audacity

14 years ago

It will serve the United States no better to be seen as responsible for the failure of the revolution than…

The two new Sudans

14 years ago

The event, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Studies’ (SAIS) African Studies Program, included presentations on Sudan’s…

Made in Egypt is best

14 years ago

The great peril, to both Mubarak and Egypt, is that he will hang on too long, increasing the risk of…

Rope-a-dope it is, for this round

14 years ago

This morning President Mubarak is playing rope-a-dope.

He isn’t finished yet

14 years ago

What comes next will likely be profoundly different from what it might have been had these demonstrations not allowed Egyptians…

Even pharaoh knew when to let people go

14 years ago

Even pharaoh knew when to let the people go. In the modern version, the pharaoh leaves.

Two presidents try to contain the damage

14 years ago

Two presidents try to contain the damage

Mubarak’s choice: step down or crack down

14 years ago

The President faces a starker choice than yesterday: step down or crack down.

Police riot in Cairo, refuse to do so in Alexandria

14 years ago

More later today.  In the meanwhile, a bit of video that tells what you really need to know: it's about…