Tag: politics

The Crusades, Haters, and Skipping the Key Word

It’s amazing how some folks are more prepared to defend the Crusades than acknowledge that the President of the United States had a point. I’ve sat in years and years of history, political science, and...

/ February 13, 2015

What happened to repairing America’s image?

When Barack Obama took office in 2009, one of his foreign policy platforms was to repair America’s image abroad. Over the course of the last 5 years, however, the perception of the United States has taken...

/ October 24, 2013

How does America fit into the situation in Egypt?

This is the fourth post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...

/ August 22, 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood: Then, now and into the future

This is the second post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...

/ August 20, 2013

Egypt is Complicated: A Political Map

This is the first post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next...

/ August 19, 2013

What Americans should know about Iran’s new president

Iran’s new president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, won a landslide victory in June, collecting more than fifty percent of the vote, more than three times that of the runner-up. He’ll be officially sworn in this weekend. The...

/ August 1, 2013