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After Chicago, How Long Can NATO Stay Relevant?
An essay I wrote in the international magazine last week sets out NATO’s existential quandary. The organization wrapped up its biggest summit ever in Chicago on Monday, but it was drowned out in part by the din both of protesters massed on the Windy City’s streets and the incessant hubbub of the U.S. presidential election cycle.
Egypt’s Presidential Elections: Free and a Free-for-All
The country takes on its next big democratic test with a presidential vote starring 13 candidates spanning the political spectrum.
South Africa: Over-Exposing the President
Let’s get one thing clear. Is ‘The Spear,’ a picture by the South African artist Brett Murray representing South African President Jacob Zuma in heroic revolutionary pose — with his penis hanging out — good art? No. The pose is striking. But the black, red and yellow coloring is derivative, borrowed not only from the Soviets but also a thousand other, better current works — not least a 2008 TIME cover by Shepard Fairey of President Barack Obama. And the organ is incongruous: exposed in inept fashion and gratuitously painted.
