Iraqi Prime Minister May Be Speeding Toward The First Dictatorship Since Saddam

There used to be a joke Iraqis told about television: there are only four channels, and Saddam is on every one of them. Now Saddam's long dead, it's a decade later, and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has openly censored the media. It's just one in a long line of steps Maliki has taken to consolidate power. Al Jazeera and 9 other stations have lost their licenses to broadcast in Iraq. The Maliki government indicates the recent spate in sectarian violence, and the media's perceived stoking of such...