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Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here's what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.

With a flurry of elections hitting Africa this year, here are four countries where things could get lively -- maybe too lively.

*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.

For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.

A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.

Why didn't anyone predict the Arab revolutions?

On 9/11, the West woke up to the threat posed by failed states. But did we actually understand it?

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

Looking back with a generous dose of humility.

Ten of Russia's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.

Chasing the dying memories of Soviet trauma.

Why so many remain.

Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.

Missing out on the Twitter Revolution? Here's a cheat sheet to get you started.

Fair trade is overrated.

For Barack Obama, maybe getting nothing passed in Congress isn't so bad after all.

Drink and be merry -- it's all for the common good.

How the left-field idea of diplomacy without diplomats became an essential tool of statecraft.

Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?