And on the sixth day USAID said: Let there be scholarships. And 117 Arabs reversed their backwardness, but not in Egypt.

Reason #6 the Golf Channel is better than MiddleEast news: On the Golf Channel,no one blames America for everything bad that happens to them

Who will tell the people that math and not Islam is the answer?

Fortunately, a parallel Arab Spring is being waged at Ground Zero in Amman, where Lawrence of Arabia meets Mark Zuckerberg. Go middle class.

In honor of today's column, "This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone", I am replacing the Golden Arches Theory with the Yellow M Theory.

There is a youth bulge in the Arab world. If they don't start converting fish in the sea into fish to fry, we'll end up with an empty net.

What is preventing us from getting our groove back is that China can spell stick-to-it-iveness so much better than the average American.

The Palestinians may be one brick short of a load, but if Israel compensates with its own bricks the overload will threaten Jewish democracy

Obamacare is the unsocialization of the current socialized health care system. The American gut just doesn't know it. nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opi…

With 2 political parties who can't see the forest for its trees,barking up the right one comes down to a matter of LadyLuck vs deforestation

Any Palestinian who supports a cultural boycott of Israel should remember Paul Simon ended apartheid in S. Africa by DEFYING such a boycott.

p.s. Paul Simon is my friend.

The answer to the penultimate question is yes, all the time. It's flattering, but I'm just a normal tourist guy. blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/…

My friend Paul Simon may have been talking about Turkey when he wrote: "I am an island."

The first Rule of Holes is that, if you're in more than one, you're already halfway there.

An Egyptian Nelson Mandela could potentially be as useful to the Middle East as an Arab Ariel Sharon.

Apologies for the long absence. I am away working on my next book: That Still Used To Be Us

Sorry, but America must focus on becoming Cape Canaveral. Someone else will have to be Syria's well-armed external midwife.

If Turkey wants to be something more than a floating bridge between Kurdish islands, it must plant its feet on solid ground.

Egypt is the opposite of Las Vegas — what happens there never stays there.