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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As a young child, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. As she grew up...
Freedom or Terror
Ingredients for a Lasting Democracy
Ousting an autocrat is only a start. The rules of power become just as important as who holds it. By Larry Diamond.
Lands of Little Rain
Drought may not be destiny, but a critical ingredient for democratic societies does seem literally to fall from the skies. By Stephen H. Haber and Victor Menaldo.
The Kingdom of Caution
The land where stability vies ceaselessly with stagnation. By Joshua Teitelbaum.