Efforts at reform that maximize democratic access fail to acknowledge the limits of citizen capacity and interest.

Egypt has made the pro-government Libyan forces an offer of military training and intelligence help, according to new reports. Is another war in the offing?

The Nigerian military is reporting a recent victory, but an account from an Archbishop in the country’s northeast paints a far grimmer picture of the government’s fight against Boko Haram.

The CDC and WHO experts release terrifying new predictions about the spread of the Ebola epidemic.

Today in New York, protesters have gathered to denounce the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of The Death of Klinghoffer, a dramatization of the murder of an elderly, wheelchair-bound Jew that is more than a little sympathetic to the terrorists who killed him.

Libya’s General Haftar claims to be behind today’s airstrikes on the Islamist militias outside of Tripoli. But there’s reason to doubt that.

San Bernardino will be allowed to cut benefits for its firefighters as it attempts to get out of bankruptcy.

Egypt is appealing to the international community to back an effort to disarm the Libyan militias. Whether this appeal succeeds or not, it is clear that Egypt is prepared to act on the growing danger next door.

The chaos in Libya is alarming Egypt and strengthening links between the terrorists who threaten the country. Will Egypt and the other Sunni states intervene in Libya?

The Thai military maintains that democracy will return to the country in late 2015, but in the meantime, the new Prime Minister, General Prayuth, is consolidating his hold on power.