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November 2, 2012

Egypt
The NGO Trial in Cairo

Saturday November was to see  an end to the trial of 43 NGO employees charged with leading unregistered organizations and receiving illegal foreign funding.  Closing arguments have now been postponed…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

March 27, 2024

United States
Modernizing the Federal Student Loan Experience

President Biden wants to modernize the federal student loan system. The U.S. Postal Service and Affordable Care Act can show him how.

Education
Blog Post by Roger W. Ferguson Jr. and Tobin Van Ostern Renewing America

August 5, 2011

Justice in Cairo?

The trial of Hosni Mubarak began this week. Throughout the world the indelible image of the former president in a cage was printed on page one of a thousand newspapers. Mubarak was a dictator, and v…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

June 4, 2013

Middle East and North Africa
NGO Verdict in Cairo, Failure in Washington

Here is what happened in Cairo in the case of 43 NGO workers whose crime was to promote democracy in Egypt: An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted 43 nonprofit workers, including at least 16 America…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

January 2, 2024

Peru
The Organized Crime Threat to Latin American Democracies

Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.

Photo of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori attending a trial as a witness in 2018
Blog Post by Will Freeman Latin America’s Moment

May 3, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: May 3, 2024

NETmunidal+10 conference held; FCC fines phone carriers; U.S. announces HIPAA amendment; EU police release statement opposing encryption; WhatsApp threatens to leave India.

Britain's computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee attends the NETmundial: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance opening ceremony in Sao Paulo April 23, 2014.
Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

October 18, 2010

Politics and Government
Truthiness in Cairo

Cairo - It used to be that Egypt did big things based on big ideas. The Aswan High Dam, unity with Syria, Nasserism, the Crossing (of the Suez Canal), infitah, and peace with Israel, to name just …

Truthiness in Cairo
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates