President Asif Ali Zardari has shown an extraordinary knack for survival. How has a man so tainted with corruption survived? Most countries use their constitution as the rock solid basis for their nation’s laws. Some see a constitution as an annoyance to be flouted, skirted around or rewritten according to the need of the regime. [...]

A triumphant Vladimir Putin, Russian president from 2000 to 2008 before becoming prime minister due to term limits, has just won a third six-year term with nearly 64 percent of the vote. Opposition claims that his presidential election victory was unfair and fraudulent are ignored by Putin. Instead, he criticized the opposition for failing to [.

In December last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced their 2012 “Muslims Vote” campaign. A 2012 presidential voter guide is available, they have an online registration tool and a video, as well as a presence on Twitter. The hope is to encourage participation in the election among young Muslim voters as CA

Despite rumors of an impending coup, Pakistan looks on course for early elections. But an Imran Khan win would see big changes to ties with the U.S. Events have been moving fast in Pakistan in the last few months. Yet while the country’s longest lasting democratic government has been widely reported as being on the [...]

OP ED – Huffington Post. “Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither safety nor liberty.” Benjamin Franklin wrote these words in 1775, and they remain startlingly relevant today. We live in a counter-terrorism world, where the pursuit of public security has led to the erosion of civ