Once a country loses its sense of national identity, a national unraveling is often not far behind.

Last Tuesday afternoon the National Security Council announced that the Obama administration was releasing the long-delayed shipments of M1A1 tank kits, Harpoon missiles, and F-16 fighter jets to the…

Beesan Kassab asks why Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is afraid of the constitution and parliament. Elias Muhanna notes how Beirut’s #YouStink protests are changing political participation …

It would not be an overstatement to say that over the last decade Egypt has become a slow-rolling train wreck.  The fact that it has picked up steam in the last three years should be even less of a s…