Two videos offer case studies in the kind of brutality in Egypt that underlies the passions in Tahrir Square. Watch them, and it's harder to counsel patience.
Yes, democracy is messy, in Egypt as in America and Israel. But it's still the best system around -- and U.S. posturing may help Islamists at the polls.
George Clooney is just getting over a case of malaria contracted in Sudan. Now he and Nicholas Kristof will answer reader questions about malaria and how to stop it.