Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Foreign policy expert Josh Muravchik joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Friday to discuss how possible a democratic Iran really is. Muravchik argues that Iran’s educated, cosmopolitan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in ...

I just arrived in Cairo, perhaps the country changed most so far by the “Arab spring” pro-democracy movements sweeping across the Middle East, and it got me thinking about the future of authoritarian ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition. The 2025 US National Security Strategy signals the most significant shift in ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia offers perhaps the last hope for Arab Spring democracy; only in the small nation that inspired revolts from Cairo to Tripoli has the negotiating table won out over the gun, ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Tawakul Karman, who shared a Nobel peace prize for her pro-democracy campaigning in Yemen, has said she views the Egyptian army's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi as a ...

The Tunisian uprising and subsequent protests in Egypt have sparked discussion about the potential for democracy in the Arab world. Having managed to overthrow their repressive leader, the Tunisian ...

Tunisia continues to demonstrate that Arab Spring 2011’s revolts can indeed seed democratic change. On Oct. 26, Tunisia’s secularist party, Tunisian Call (Nidaa Tounes), won a parliamentary plurality.

Interestingly, as the debate over Arab democracy, its virtues and perils, gears up in distant America, it raises only little interest in Israel. Most Israeli politicians, from Sharon downwards, rarely ...