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CPAC has always been wonderful in its jumble of competing issue groups all jostling for attention. And it certainly has seen similar tensions in years past: this is the second year that the Poker Alliance has set up shop at CPAC. But it was striking to see in speech after...
Egypt has what appear to be democratic processes, but it's hardly a democracy. President Hosni Mubarak has held on to power for 28 years and has been subject to only one multicandidate election, held in 2005, which international monitors say was marred by fraud. Mubarak, 81, has not yet...
But if ElBaradei runs, this may be the first election in which the opposition groups can present a viable alternative candidate. ElBaradei has broad appeal as a well-established and respected public figure whose career flourished far from the bounds of corrupt regime politics. "We are not just liberal people...
Yet there are signs that the new system wasn’t for nothing. According to Harris, around 10 of the 30 non-punches advanced to the next round, compared with about 40 of the 115 official invites—meaning both groups fared comparably well. It remains to be...
U.S. counterterrorism experts insist that even if bin Laden is alive, he is probably too deep in hiding to be anything other than a symbolic figurehead for al-Qaeda and the many jihadi groups it has spawned globally. Day-to-day management of the operation is said to be handled...