On Democracy in the Middle East, G20 and Social Inequality

The readiness of Islamist movements in the middle east to engage with democratic ideas is evidence that the region is ready for substantive democratic change. The United States should renew its efforts in this direction in deed as well as word, says Shadi Hamid.

The G20s sins of commission

The killing fields of inequality - articles like this reassure me that I'm not a completely idiotic Guardian-groupie with a bleeding heart the size of the former USSR.