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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the same week the Obama administration is claiming a 2.5 percent reduction spending increases will result in laid off teachers, grounded planes, and furloughed janitors, Secretary of State John Kerry released $250 million in U.S. aid ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests the U.S. Constitution is not the best model for modern democracies to follow.

Ginsburg, traveling during the court's break, addressed her remarks students at Cairo University while visiting with legislators and judges in Egypt. The Justice visit comes at the same time Egyptian officials are preparing to send to trial 19 American democracy and rights workers. In an interview with Al Hayat Television last Wednesday, Ginsburg said, “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I...

The world has watched intently over the past few months as predominantly Muslim countries from Egypt to Tunisia to Libya have overthrown long-time dictators. In the wake of these revolutions, much has been made about the dawn of democracy across ...

It is a patent fact… that the chronological element in early Egyptian history is in a state of almost hopeless obscurity. —George Rawlinson, A History of Egypt (1886) The Devastation of Egypt The Exodus destroyed Egypt.  Its cattle and crops ...

As the countries of North Africa and the Middle East continue to be rocked by popular protests, the lessons from Egypt’s fall deserve attention.  For all the theorizing, the key elements of Mubarak’s downfall can be traced back to three ...

ARLINGTON — After the eighteen-day success of mass protests in Egypt to overthrow its thirty-year dictator, groups of Americans have been moved to protest numerous injustices in the U.S. “It’s what all the cool kids are doing,” said Jeff Mantel, ...

To this day there has never existed a bureaucracy which could compare with that of Egypt.  —Max Weber (1909) The Great Pyramid at Giza The Great Pyramid is the last of the Seven Wonders of the World.  It contains at ...

As Osiris lives, he also will live; as Osiris dies not, he will not die…. —The Pyramid Texts (ancient Egypt) …And sins forgeuenesse. And of the flesh the again-rising… —The Apostles’ Creed (pre-Norman England) Osiris Rising The Egyptian understanding of ...

With events moving at a dizzying pace across the Arab speaking world, it is still much too early to know what lasting impact the freedom movements in countries like Tunisia and Egypt will have. The Obama administration in the US, ...