By the time Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim decided to leave Somalia, life in the southern city of Kismaayo had become, as he put it with consummate understatement, "complicated." ...more

December 29, 2008

The makers of a controversial documentary about Islam are spending millions of dollars to distribute their film on DVD as a paid advertisement in newspapers across the country, including today's Tampa Tribune. ...more

September 21, 2008

Someone forgot to tell the U.S. Supreme Court that we're at war. ...more

June 24, 2008

This week's Mideast peace conference is unlike any previous U.S. attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because the price of failure has risen dramatically: Radical Islamists could gain the upper hand in Palestinian areas and in an increasingly polarized Middle East. ...more

November 25, 2007