Stephen Glain is a freelance journalist and author based in Paris. For two decades, as a correspondent for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>Newsweek</em>, he covered Asia, the Middle East and the policy sausage factories of Washington, D.C. He is the author of two books: <em>Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World</em> (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) and <em>State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America’s Empire</em> (Crown Books, 2011).

Difference in Degree, but not in Kind

[caption id="attachment_55235078" align="alignnone" width="594"] Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.[…

Morsi's Next Steps

[caption id="attachment_55233601" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, meets with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi…

What Next for Obama?

He won—but he won ugly. The same US president who first captured the White House in poetry and governed in competent—if lackluster—prose has been…

Hands Untied

[caption id="attachment_55236097" align="alignnone" width="640"] US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

The Merchant's Plight

[caption id="attachment_55236778" align="aligncenter" width="616"] Damage in a section of the souk in the old city of Aleppo after the area was…

Hagel’s Trial By Fire

[caption id="attachment_55237946" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Former US Senator Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee…

Strings Attached

[caption id="attachment_55238430" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Palestinians hold placards bearing anti- US and USAID slogans during a protest…

Sibling Rivalry

[caption id="attachment_55241514" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptians campaign for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a former…

One Eye on the Exit

[caption id="attachment_55241856" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Egyptian man hold a cross during a memorial march for Christians who were…

Borrowed Success

[caption id="attachment_55242833" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian shopkeepers stand in a passageway in the souk of Khan Al-Khalili in Cairo,…