“That prize should have been given to me,” joked Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad shortly after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 11 October.
Short term beats long term most of the time, even when people understand where their long-term
“I don’t know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done”
Surprise of the week: the club of African presidents (aka the African Union) has held a special meeting
The media spotlight on the Arab world shifts focus almost every month: counter-revolution in Egypt
A salient feature of American “exceptionalism” is the belief that the United States can never be ordinary
When Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, came home from the United Nations General Assembly meeting
Two governments did bold, brave things last week. One of them quit and called a new election
Campaign strategist James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid”
