[caption id="attachment_55235553" align="alignnone" width="555"] Ben Affleck in a still from Argo (2012)[/caption]A recurring joke in Argo is that no…

[caption id="attachment_55235526" align="alignnone" width="620"]US President Richard Nixon and with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger arrived…

[caption id="attachment_55235489" align="alignnone" width="594"] A boy stands next to a stall at Magra El-Oyoun market on January 24, 2012, Cairo…

[caption id="attachment_55235479" align="alignnone" width="620"] Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary Clinton, Russian Foreign…

[caption id="attachment_55235448" align="alignnone" width="620"] Valley of the Kings mural from King Tutankhamun's tomb[/caption]This month marks the…

[caption id="attachment_55235403" align="alignnone" width="620"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President…

[caption id="attachment_55235390" align="alignnone" width="620"] Stephen Dorff as an Israeli fighter pilot in Zaytoun (2012)[/caption]The UK Jewish…

[caption id="attachment_55235355" align="alignleft" width="660"] Then-British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and US President Lyndon B. Johnson…

[caption id="attachment_55235336" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Barack Obama, center, casts his 2012 vote during early voting at the…

He won—but he won ugly. The same US president who first captured the White House in poetry and governed in competent—if lackluster—prose has been…