South Ossetia

" I have staked my country’s fate on the West’s rhetoric about democracy and liberty." — Mikheil Saakashvili, in this morning’s...

Must-reads: Daphne Bramham on Hong Kong’s future; Henry Aubin and Gary Mason on police oversight, or lack thereof; Margaret Wente...

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I know I am beginning to try the patience of some readers who wonder why a little warlet in a tiny distant country...

Must-reads: Marcus Gee and George Jonas on the Georgia situation. Russia awakes We should have seen it coming, and it’s unlikely...

A dynamite article by Arnaud Leparmentier in Le Monde gives t he tick-tock of France’s participation in ceasefire talks between...

This is what makes democracy so great. Choice : At last, hard-won bipartisan consensus around a set of exquisitely useless...

John McCain today said "We are all Georgians." Matthew Yglesias, a formidable young liberal U.S. blogger (now at a new, frankly...

The president of Georgia speaks at a rally in Tbilisi, flanked by the presidents of Poland and Ukraine (the three Baltic...

Must-reads: Henry Aubin on the Montreal North riots; Andrew Cohen on Russia vs. China; Jonathan Kay on the Olympics. Live from...