washingtonpost.com > Opinion > Columnists > Jackson Diehl About This Columnist Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial editor, has been a writer and editor at the Post since 1978. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, Central Europe and the Middle East. His column appears on alternate Mondays. Recent Columns A Tenuous Mideast Spring (Post, April 19, 2005) Sharon's Gamble Rides on Bush (Post, April 11, 2005) Chavez's Censorship: Where 'Disrespect' Can Land You in Jail (Post, March 28, 2005) Democracy From the Inside Out (Post, March 14, 2005) A Mideast Makeover?: Popular Protests Spur Changes From Autocrats (Post, Feb. 28, 2005) Egypt's Gamble (Post, Feb. 14, 2005) How Bush Could Fight Tyranny (Post, Jan. 31, 2005) Trouble In Our Back Yard: In Latin America, Democracy Is Faltering (Post, Jan. 17, 2005) Battle for Belarus (Post, Jan. 3, 2005) Sidestepping Palestinian Democracy (Post, Dec. 20, 2004) Russia's Unchecked Ambitions (Post, Dec. 6, 2004) Fallujah's Fallout (Post, Nov. 22, 2004) Sharon's Reason To Mourn (Post, Nov. 8, 2004) Putin's Unchallenged Imperialism (Post, Oct. 25, 2004) An Opening For Arab Democrats (Post, Oct. 11, 2004) From Jenin To Fallujah? (Post, Sept. 27, 2004) Refusing to Whitewash Abu Ghraib (Post, Sept. 13, 2004) How Torture Came Down From the Top (Post, Aug. 27, 2004) A Missile From the South (Post, Aug. 2, 2004) Officers' Unheroic Example (Post, July 19, 2004) © 2002-2005 The Washington Post Company