The Classicist: Thinking Strategically About Iran

Great political changes—revolutions and coups, democratic breakdowns and transitions—are often marked by dates when history turned. The “third wave” of global democratization is replete with such moments. It began in the early hours of 25 April 1974, when left-wing military officers in Portugal, fed up with corruption, stagnation, and debilitating wars to hang on to the country’s African colonies, overthrew the 48-year-old dictatorship. 

Democratic nations remain the foundation of a stable, prosperous, and humane world.

An international court has filed charges against the men who run Afghanistan’s schools. Two women deprived of an education suggest what that is worth.