Here is one issue that is crying out for Congressional focus: election procedure and reform.

Americans will continue to have televised "projections" of winners and losers before the votes are counted and released, which means people will think the system is rigged.

The presidency ofIran is a symbolic office rather than a position of real power, but the election-night fiasco suggests that even very powerful people are unwilling to play the old game.

Bush's mandate comes from the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution, not spinners, politicians or pundits, grant the president substantial powers to use as skillfully as he can.

Africa's most powerful state is flirting with a dangerous retreat into the all-too-crowded ranks of unserious, even odious, regimes that dot the continent.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe continues to threaten anyone who will vote against him in next week's elections.

While the world’s attention is focused on a struggling Iraq and a rising China, a battle for the heart and soul of the Americas is being waged closer to home.

The Moscow City Duma election of December 2005 yields clues to national trends in voter attitudes and how the parties should strategize in advance of the 2007 national elections.