Kurdistan has made incredible progress and enjoys sympathy from the West, but the murder of a 23-year-old journalist threatens to undermine the region's promising future.

An American people who allow the representative branch of government to be nullified by an imperial executive branch will not long have representative government.

Chávez's march toward dictatorship began a decade ago. It is almost complete.

The Fix over at the Washington Post—a political staple in this election year—has a little bit of election analysis out for us the night after the president of the United States slow jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon. The Fix pronounces the meme of the race: Barack Obama is cool. Mitt Romney is not.

A decade after the people of Belarus democratically elected Alexander Lukashenko, a former collective farm director, to the country"s presidency in 1994, he is Europe"s last dictator. The means by which he has achieved this position are worth analyzing, as they shed light on possible future developments in the former Soviet bloc and Europe as a whole.

Today marks the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Oddly enough, many tears have been shed for the departed Mr. Mubarak—and not just tears from his military cronies, his business cronies, his family cronies, and the Israelis, who had gotten used to the devil they knew in Cairo.

Inspired by the Pakistani role model, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is transforming Iran into a military dictatorship, where the IRGC is not only constitutionally tasked with "safeguarding the revolution and its achievements," but also rules Iran.