Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rhetoric has the world treating clerical Iran's 20-year quest to develop nuclear weapons more seriously.

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)

We got more tussle and a whole bunch of dumb questions in the Meet the Press/NBC/Facebook/Union Leader/Channel 7 debate (are these things improved by having more sponsors? No) this morning.

There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did.

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

Twice before we've stood at the crossroads, and twice before conservatives have led the way forward. Can they do it again?

The majority of Arab civil society may celebrate Bush's election rebuke, but Arab reformers may find they have missed their best opportunity, while dictators and theocrats seize theirs.

The Iraq Study Group has elevated Iran to its rightful place in our national squabble over the war: dead center.