Burma’s Ambiguous Breakthrough

After a brief era of political opening, the authoritarian old guard has ridden a dubiously conducted presidential election back into power.

After two decades of elections that produced a number of alternations in power, an impasse over “caretaker government” crippled the 2014 contest and has made single-party rule all too real…

Long prone to coups, Pakistan now for the first time has seen a freely elected government duly serve out its full term and peacefully hand the  reins of power to…