There is a reason the U.S. State Department and organizations like the Carter Center routinely send teams of American observers to fledgling democracies all over the world: they recognize that ...

The above-linked post by Mark Suster, a well-known venture capital blogger, starts with a very negative view of board observers, and then carves out a few situations in which they can be useful: "I ...

Only a small fraction of the international election observers that were supposed to be sent to the U.S. to monitor November's election are actually coming. The Organization for Security and ...

The first lawyer to arrive stood, as usual, at the edge of the protest. He waited and watched the police as the police watched the protesters, who readied themselves to march, ignoring long silent ...