Tonight, as I see the drama of democracy unfolding around the globe, perhaps -- perhaps we are closer to that new world than ever before.
DAKAR, Senegal — A volatile test for this small West African nation's established democracy unfolded on Sunday as voters decided whether the country's elderly president should be permitted to stay in power.
Ten years later in 2012, and with a new era of democracy unfolding, women sense their liberation.
The worst of all the sneak attacks on democracy unfolding right now on Capitol Hill has his itchy trigger fingerprints all over the bombsight.
In the country's precarious economic environment, where an unruly democracy is unfolding after three decades of dictatorship, his homilies inspire hope and confidence.
As the Egyptian democracy movement unfolds, affecting people from North Africa to the borders of India and beyond, it clearly shows that people will only be governed with their consent — nothing less.
And it is the story of a furious scramble by the Obama White House — right up until Mr. Obama's call Tuesday night for change to begin "now" — to catch up with a democracy movement unfolding so rapidly that Washington came close to being left behind.
None of those involved emerge with credit from the episode, which underlines the shortcomings in Georgian democracy and unfolded at the same time that NATO's secretary-general visited the country to assess its reform progress.In November 2006 Irakli Okruashvili left Georgia's government, having been removed from the post of defence minister by Mr Saakashvili.
Night after night, and sometimes at weekend matinees, a remarkable experiment in democracy is unfolding across New Jersey, and the unlikely star of this one-man display in political masochism is Mr. Corzine, who was a very successful bond trader at Goldman Sachs before becoming its co-chairman.
But with tech-assisted pro-democracy movements unfolding like accordions since Iran's 2009 Green Movement, where social media unleashed a tech savvy population to challenge the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I think Twitter deserves a mention.
