In all my years of watching Congress, I have never seen anything quite like what we have now.

Imbued with a sense of victimhood, entitlement, and cultivated grievance that can only be taught, today's college students respond to inconvenience with temper tantrums.

Indian politics is remarkably closed to fresh talent, privileges sycophancy over ambition and encourages corruption. Left unchecked, this may erode the legitimacy of India's democracy.

A brave band of reformers is taking on Kenya"s endemic culture of corruption.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

The cost of the Iraq war was high. Almost 4,500 American servicemen and women died, and many more were injured. American taxpayers paid billions of dollars. Was the Iraq war worth it? Yes.

In India, it's been the year of the scam. Over the past 12 months, allegations of graft or wrongdoing have touched, among others, Parliament, the media, mining, construction, hospitals, airlines, and sports. But after bubbling for the better part of a year, India's national debate over corruption may finally have come to a boil.

As the Russian protest movement expands and radicalizes in the lead-up to the March 4 presidential election, the key question is not whether Vladimir Putin--and Putinism--will survive.