The tipping point in the American public’s support for the Iraq war may already be here, its arrival accelerated by an unlikely figure: A middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow American woman whose
It is rather peculiar how the Palestinian Authority opted to get engaged in a process that was solely aimed at excluding it, and how the debate has completely shifted from Israel’s real motives to
WE Gulf people may wonder why the tenuous task of drafting a new Iraqi constitution should bother us. We should not dismiss it as an exclusively internal matter of a neighboring country and should
Ian Buruma concludes his slim but valuable book, “Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle,” with two paragraphs pregnant with meaning. In discussing present-day Japan, he observes that as
The crashes within a week of two passenger aircraft belonging to small airlines raise concerns that economic pressures on low-cost operators force some into dangerous compromises on the maintenance
LONDON, 17 August 2005 — Suddenly, and unexpectedly, Sir Iqbal Sacranie’s Muslim Council for Britain has found itself under media scrutiny. Perhaps it was inevitable. There is little we can do to stop
