The Islamist Challenge: Religion and Modernity in Algeria

Saudi Arabia’s vast oil wealth sustains the antidemocratic policies that a nervous royal regime uses to defend against the threats and problems that confront it.

Islamic political parties were not especially popular with voters in Muslim-majority countries before the Arab Spring. Has that changed?

The Arab world’s old autocracies survived by manipulating the sharp identity conflicts in their societies. The division and distrust that this style of rule generated is now making it especially…