Protesters in Tehran, June 15. Getty Images.

Night had come to Tehran when this editorial was composed (mid-afternoon on Monday in St. Louis). Darkness descended on a day in which tens of thousands of ordinary Iranians silently marched and jammed the streets,…

A story in the New York Times today details a case where government prosecutors in New York attempted to determine the identities of anonymous posters on a political blog:

A grand jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in the Bronx earlier this year…

If only oil worked like potatoes.

If the world became gluttonous for potatoes, and farmers couldn’t produce enough, the price of potatoes would rise. If the price rose too fast, we’d soon lose our appetite for spuds. Cooks would substitute macaroni…

At 3:00PM this afternoon I participated in an editorial conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (former ambassador to Afghanistan and later Iraq). During the call, Ambassador Khalilzad addressed a broad range of topics, including repression in…

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In my last post, I discussed some of the stereotypes and misconceptions that Arabs have about America.

At the same time, many Americans have serious misconceptions about the Middle East. Although some may not admit it, most Americans do…