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Blood, birthright and belonging: Obama’s birth certificate and the royal wedding , Heather McRobie The ornate rituals in Westminster Abbey, and Donald Trump’s investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate have something in common that threatens modern power, and it isn’t very modern. Don’t ever let... Read more » France's "Battle of the Veil", Marie Gilbert Many commentators have dismissed the French ban on wearing the niqab as a xenophobic reaction, writes Marie Gilbert. Hinging on French understandings about state, religion and women, the debate is in fact more sophisticated. It deserves to... Read more » Not "Refolution", just Democratic Revolutions, Stephen Wheatcroft Contra John Keane, we don’t need new words to describe the Arab Spring. These are democratic revolutions in the age of monitory democracy. Through active monitory procedures they may even stay democratic I am... Read more » Terrorism in historical perspective, , Fred Halliday Terrorism is the defining issue of the post 9/11 world. It is also one of the most confusing and contested words in the political lexicon. The route to understanding, says Fred Halliday, is through making connections: between past and present, state... Read more » My Royal Wedding: free from it (but there is no escape), Tony Curzon Price Our Editor-in-Chief seeks escape and recounts the company he kept On the day of the royal wedding - no, not just the day, the time - I went to Wormwood Scrubs with the dirtsurfer, the flexifoil kite and Joey the dog. Read more » Corporations may not protect your free speech and privacy, Jim Killock While activists aggrieved at the disappearance of Facebook accounts should absolutely demand their rights, they should also seek to reclaim their power through networks they can control. Exactly how and why Read more » A new understanding of the Middle East, Eberhard Kienle There are multiple reasons for looking beyond Islam for our comprehension of this tumultuous region, to culture, to politics, and also to the history of capitalism, foreign interference and domination – its winners and losers. Our reviewer... Read more » More Recent Articles Al-Qaeda post-Bin Laden: what next?, Murad Batal Al-Shishani The crisis with ‘Safety First’ Scotland, Gerry Hassan Skinback Fusiliers, Episode Six, Unknown Soldier Israeli Foreign Minister urges boycott of PA – Hamas government, , Oliver Scanlan Bin Laden, Dostoevsky and the reality principle: an interview with André Glucksmann, , André Glucksmann Protecting civilians: too important to be left to the military, Tim Wallis InfoEnclosure 2.0, Brian Wyrick and Dmytri Kleiner "Conspiracy to commit a public nuisance", the pre-crime of choice for today's police, Guy Aitchison oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 2nd 2011, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss The Facebook Purge: Corporate power, political influence and the need for independent, powerfully popular social media networks, Aaron Peters