Civil War Redux

Dear Ma, War is hell. I knew we’d left the South once I started seeing Trader Joe’s instead of Piggly Wiggly’s. There’s nothing to eat but Organic Almond Crunch. I’ll be live-tweeting our invasion of DC and will try to loot Archie Bunker’s chair from the Smithsonian for you. The South … Read More

Libya’s Populist Uprising

When the green shoots of the “Arab Spring” first sprouted in Tunisia (in late 2010, despite the media-embraced “Spring” descriptor) and quickly spread to Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, scattering seeds across the entirety of North Africa and the Middle East, one of the favourite games of international observers was to … Read More

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