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A recent campaign against illegal migrants in Russia reveals the corruption at the heart of the issue.

Sixty years ago this week, the CIA successfully staged a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Don’t expect coverage of Japan's nuclear power disaster on the evening news: unlike other environmental catastrophes, Fukushima’s ongoing crisis offers little to film.

With corpses filling Cairo’s streets and both sides vowing to escalate, any glimmers of revolutionary hope have been all but extinguished.

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

The violent clampdown by security forces has all but ended the possibility of a rapprochement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Despite public assurances to address arbitrary detention, the government is still placing activists under arrest.

Barbie, Joe, Darth Vader and making war in children’s culture.

In Egypt, as well as in the West, outrage over rampant sexual assault has too often been about political agendas rather than concern for the actual victims.

Don’t for a second imagine we’re heading for an era of renewable energy.