The new president will need to decide whether democracy in the process is more important than democracy as the final result. How should the United States react if, as the new regimes rewrite their constitutions, they turn from democracy toward theocracy? (INCLUDES VIDEO)

How will the United States respond to Saad Ibrahim being punished for supportingtheir democracy agenda?

A Middle East policy resting on Egypt is a house built on sand.

The value of the Egyptian alliance is less than meets the eye.

In November 2003, President George W. Bush jettisoned half a century of American foreign policy, declaring that “stability can not be purchased at the expense of liberty.” America, he announced, would adopt a “forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East.”But any freedom strategy in the Middle East...

When U.S. assistance is needed most, our silence is deafening.

We must not allow our divisions over Iraq to blind us to the trend toward freedom. We ought to notice it, applaud it and do everything we can to encourage it further.

While President Bush once spoke of freedom, he now courts those who oppose it.