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This Wednesday, Egyptians will hold the first competitive presidential poll after emerging from three decades of autocratic rule last year.

Egyptians go to the polls on May 23 and 24. But heightened tension and deepening unease over every aspect of the political process make it hard to predict what will happen next.

Occupy is the base upon which to build a mass left radical movement, one that challenges the system itself.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has replaced Hosni Mubarak as the force that rules Egypt with an iron fist. As January 25 approaches, the revolution is not over.

Occupy Wall Street isn't just producing art work, it's challenging the boundaries of art and activism.

In the midst of a complicated election, Egyptians are once again in the streets, protesting military rule and debating what democracy means.

On the eve of elections, those who once united in defiance of the Mubarak regime have fragmented into antagonistic camps.

The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.

In three months, an idea and a hashtag became a worldwide movement. Here’s how they did it.

The proverbial bogeymen of our world—Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad—are clearly meant to act like so many mini-black holes absorbing all our fears.  But they won’t save the West from its decline, or the former sole superpower from its comeuppance.