Once upon a time, in a country called South Africa the color of your skin determined where you lived, what jobs you were allowed, and whether you could vote or not. Decent countries around the world fought the evil of racial apartheid by turning South Africa into a pariah state. They barred it from global [...]

Whenever the Arab League gets together for it bi-annual meetings, journalists in Cairo – where the pan-Arab body is based – joke they can write the final communiqué themselves as they wait for the officials to come out of their meetings and talk to the media. Seven years might have passed since the last major [...]