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Turkey’s election results were a big surprise. What’s next?

06/09/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Make no mistake: Turkey’s 76 million people, 86 percent of whom cast votes in the national parliamentary election Sunday, delivered a stunning rebuke to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist who has dominated Turkish politics as prime minister and now…

Britain 2015: What Americans can learn from UK election

05/06/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
LONDON — They called it “Question Time,” borrowing the term from the prime minister’s weekly appearance in the House of Commons, but this was surprisingly and refreshingly different. On Thursday, the three main candidates for prime minister — David Cameron,…

Ukraine president: no military solution to conflict with Russia

09/12/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that there was no military solution to his country’s conflict with Russia and that Ukraine needed European economic and political support to help avoid an escalation. The Ukrainian president, who struck a cease-fire with…

Easter 2014: Hope for the dead

04/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and…

Cronyism At Its Worst In Mongolia

06/28/2012 Published on Forbes.com
As I wrote on Monday, the Mongolian elections will go ahead without former president Enkhbayar standing for his Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP). And go ahead they did today due to current president Elbegdorj’s manipulation of democracy for his own…