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General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi is the Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Last summer, he led the overthrow of elected President Mohammed Morsi.

On the same day that Tarun Tejpal was sent to prison for twelve days for sexual assault, the Indian Supreme Court reversed…

I know we’ve been down this road before (not only here but here), but I think it’s also worth mentioning that…

Are there polyglots of sign language? Someone on Quora wondered the same thing — and even though the answer is an…

“Karma Police” is one of those songs — and, oh, what a song — and it raises a lot of questions…

Un gros, petit canard by the name of Alexandre Adler took to the pages of L’Opinion to rail against Paul Krugman…

At the end of June, Melih Gökçek — the mayor of Ankara, Turkey, a city of four and a half million — took to twitter and accused a journalist working for the BBC of being both a spy and a traitor.

Everyone knows about pho, red hot beef noodle, bun bo hue, and — as Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo of the UCLA Asia Institute put it — “the trusted spring rolls of several varieties.”

I was talking with the sports editor of The Guardian a few months ago. I was raving about a visit to Fenway Park, and I was telling him how struck I was by the plurality of experience at hand while I was there.

I’m writing a novel. Sorry — I mean: three no — no, wait — five novels. I’m writing five novels. Why? Because it’s a Friday and I have a few minutes to spare.