Mikhail Saakashvili, president of Georgia, speaks about his country's recent successes and global strategic position.

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

Ten days after the blatantly rigged presidential election, Iran is descending into darkness.

The crowds that brought down the Mubarak regime in Egypt do not believe America stood with them in their struggle for freedom-and many believe we stood against them.

The recent spontaneous, Twitter-led uprising in Moldova sounded too good to be true--and it was.

For almost a third of a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded American presidents. It has taken hostages, conducted terrorism, undermined the Middle East peace process, and worked unrelentingly to become a nuclear power and develop missiles with global reach.

Zurab Zhvania, only 41 when he died, was the Republic of Georgia's prime minister and co-architect, along with President Mikheil Saakashvili, of theRose Revolutionthat brought true democracy to Georgia a year ago.

The Bush administration said the main goal of the president's visit to Georgia was to acknowledge and encourage the young democracy. Just 18 months after the Rose Revolution toppled the entrenched government of Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia has inspired similar peaceful uprisings in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.