Eastern Europe’s “Terrible Twos”

Evidence from the postcommunist countries shows that the strength of the legislature may be the institutional key to democratic consolidation.

Well-organized demonstrations are rocking the 26-year-old dictatorship of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Inside the movement and why it rose when it did.

There has been surprisingly little celebration of the tenth anniversary of the revolutions that brought down communism. The exaggerated hopes of the time have given way to disillusionment, but the…