The future is not so clear for Egypt and the foundations of its political system may not be as stable as they seem, suggests Jack Shenker in an another dreary, played-out opinion piece for The New York Times. While it may appear to be heading towards less chaotic times, Egypt “lurches from crisis to crisis, each revealing new cracks in the architecture of political authority,” such as rising inflation and austerity, lowered living standards, an ongoing state of emergency that infringes on democratic freedoms, and continuing human rights violations. “No one knows what twists and turns will come next in Egypt’s era of unrest.”