The Guardian (London)

For the better part of 20 years, the policies of Fatah (the leading faction within the Palestine Liberation Organisation) have been predictable to the point of tedium. This week in Cairo, in agreeing to a unity and power-sharing deal with Hamas, Fatah surprised. Yes, Palestinian national reconciliation has been tried before, fleetingly and unenthusiastically, following a Saudi-brokered arrangement in spring 2007, and it may again unravel.

Yet independent experts at the New America Foundation thinktank conducted their own investigation and say the official figures are exaggerated. They estimate that in fact only around 6% of former detainees become involved in extremist activities after ...

Eliza Griswold, who is a poet as well as a journalist, applies it to the parts of Africa where Islam and Christianity meet. But her own investigations, of which The Tenth Parallel is a kind of portfolio, show that it's an inadequate metaphor, ...

Charles Kenny's book celebrates an era of unprecedented human development. Across the globe, millions are now enjoying lives that are markedly better than those of their parents. Not just in China but in Africa and Asia as well, children are not dying ...

Contrary to the gloom of the aid pessimists, there has been genuine progress in many of these areas, as Getting Better, the new book by Charles Kenny, eloquently argues. The challenge for those engaged in aid, development and politics is to continue ...

As the American political scientist, Evgeny Morozov, writes in The Net Delusion, the belief in "internet freedom as the ultimate technological fix" misses the point. A means to power is not power itself, and indeed it cuts both ways. ...

The first to coin the term "net neutrality", Wu is sometimes mentioned in the same breath as social media experts Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis, internet evangelist Jay Rosen, and sceptics Evgeny Morozov, Nicholas Carr and Jaron Lanier. ...

In 2009, defence expert William Hartung noted, "As part of its campaign to secure additional funding for the F-22 Raptor combat aircraft, the Lockheed Martin Corporation has asserted that 95000 jobs are at stake if the programme is terminated after the ...

Evgeny Morozov calls it "slacktivism", where it's easier to click a "like" button on Facebook than it is to participate in a crisis-mapping platform. Part of the challenge is to teach the public the power of the new tools. But maybe it's also time to ...