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The Arab Awakening

Throughout the Arab world, we are witnessing nothing less than the awakening of several phenomena that are critical for stable statehood.

Rami G. Khouri

Syria’s Assad on the Ropes?

If the Syrian dictator falls, there could be a bloody sectarian settling of accounts.

Patrick Seale

Fault Lines in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Seemingly within reach of unprecedented power in a post-Mubarak Egypt, the group faces the prospect of implosion.

Stephen Glain

Democracy 101 for Egypt

Can Egyptians turn the fervor of Tahrir into lasting political engagement?

Alia Malek

The Middle East’s Working-Class Revolutions?

The success of the insurgent movements throughout the region correlates well with the strength of organized labor.

Joel Beinin

The Moroccan ‘Exception’

The king says his realm is a beacon of liberalism, but the people demand bread, and roses too. 

Laila Lalami

That Other Tunisia

Without social justice for unemployed youth, revolutionary hopes may descend into class war.

Graham Usher

The Rise of the Intifada Generation

The Palestinian liberation struggle was “the rock that was thrown in the still water.”

Nadia Hijab

Can Tahrir Square Come to Tel Aviv?

Israel must forge a new Palestinian and regional strategy in response to the Arab Awakening.

Daniel Levy

Saudi Arabia’s Regional Reaction

The royals have spared no expense in crushing or minimizing the impact of the revolutions.

Toby C. Jones

Clampdown in Bahrain

When protesters called for a republic, the US position changed, allowing a Saudi invasion.

Scheherezade Faramarzi

Washington’s Weak Response to the Arab Awakening

The United States has alienated both allied regimes and their opposition movements.

Bob Dreyfuss

A New Middle East

The protesters who have filled the streets of Arab cities for months now are demanding democracy and open government, and an end to the corruption and brutal humiliations of autocracy.

The Editors

The Democrats’ Rural Rebellions

The Republicans’ dramatic overreach in states from Wisconsin to Maine has created openings for substantial Democratic victories in unexpected territory.

John Nichols

Noted.

Sarah Jaffe on the Verizon strike, Tom Hayden on AFL-CIO’s condemnation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Britney Wilson on a welcome change in the prisons

Various Contributors

The Party of Bachmann?

Antigovernment zealots and biblical literalists are driving the race for 2012’s Republican presidential nomination.

Sarah Posner

Keystone Cops

The largest act of civil disobedience by environmentalists in decades began outside the White House on August 20, as more than seventy people were arrested during a protest against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

George Zornick

Michele Bachmann, Wife in Chief?

Is a vote for Bachmann actually a vote for her husband?

Katha Pollitt

Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery

The UK rioters know full well that their elites are looters too.

Naomi Klein

Enter Rick Perry

Calvin Trillin

The Perpetual Guest: On Warren Niesluchowski

A visit from Warren is a test of hospitality: you don’t take him in, you take him on.

Barry Schwabsky

Shelf Life

Jane Campion reconsidered.

Akiva Gottlieb

Discandied: On Women and Elegy

Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.

Susan Stewart

This Is a Recording: On Alan Lomax

How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.

David Yaffe

Undersong

Peter Gizzi

Exchange: Blueprints for a New Economy

Reimagining capitalism.

Our Readers and William Greider

Puzzle No. 3204

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto