Effective causes need networks of people who have the strength to pull together in the face of opposition. That was one of the observations Andy Carvin, NPR’s senior strategist, discovered as he ...

I just arrived in Cairo, perhaps the country changed most so far by the “Arab spring” pro-democracy movements sweeping across the Middle East, and it got me thinking about the future of authoritarian ...

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States. In early December, Tunisian authorities arrested a ...

A significant Middle East anniversary passed this week with hardly anyone noticing. On January 14, 2011, Tunisia’s autocratic leader, president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, abruptly and unceremoniously ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...