The latest reports from Libya suggest that the country's ruler, Muammar Qaddafi, is striking back violently against protesters in western cities near the capital of Tripoli, as military defections ...

A question that can no longer be postponed. Revolutions do not spring from a vacuum, nor do they erupt as suddenly as some might imagine. They are the culmination of long-standing frustration, ...

One April evening in 1984, an after-work drink took a surreal turn. On the way to a bar, we skirted a police cordon at the entrance to St James’s Square in central London; we had barely lifted our ...