This Is What It's Like When Your Country Finally Gets the Chance to Vote

Five years to the day after a military junta released her from political house arrest, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi achieved a long-awaited victory: Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), triumphed on Friday in the Southeast Asian country's first credible parliamentary elections in a generation, held last weekend—securing enough seats to form government and select the next president. President Barack Obama personally called Suu Kyi on Thursday, US time, to commend "...