Race and Ethnicity in America

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

The Putin regime is plunging Russia into a deepening crisis. It is time to end the fiction that today's Russia is a democracy.

Why are the unfree regimes of the former Soviet world proving so durable? A lack of ideology and—perhaps surprisingly—a degree of openness are proving to be not so much problems…