Mubarak's time in power is coming to an end, hopefully the outcome and emerging President can be something the US can live with.

The best European tourist sights are those where you can see the present layered upon the past.

Offending your supporters has real-world consequences. With one grave misjudgment, George W. Bush has shattered the coalition that brought and returned him to power in 2000 and 2004.

The results of the 2010 elections fail somehow to account for the continued difficulties that Republicans (at all levels of government) have had after past wave elections.

Despite government efforts to contain it, Chinese villagers are using "village democracy" to gain the skills and mores of democratic, self-governing people.

Inattention to the problems of Medicare cannot last.