Ghulf Genes

Egypt is an interesting lens through which to view democracy. Yes, I know. I have a bit of a hang-up here. Egypt keeps recurring on this bl...

Quite obviously democracy is evolving. The form it is now taking is major eruptions of well-off young people in country after country. No s...

At 4:31 p.m. Egyptian time, which was 10:31 a.m. here in Detroit, an hour-and-a-half late, the final results of the presidential election th...

The up-swell of Islamist protest in Egypt. Fascinating. It pits the military (read the monarchical impulse) against the Muslim Brotherhood. ...

A certain weakness in democracy is that, functionally, the only real qualification of an elected official is the ability to persuade a major...

The first decennial census in the Unite States took place in 1790. The results of that count were used then, as they still are, to apportion...