It turns out that the ideas behind the Arab Spring still have some life left in them. As you look at the latest pictures of triumphant popular protests in Algeria and Sudan, spare a thought for the late Jamal Khashoggi. Before his brutal death at the hands of a Saudi hit squad six months ago, the exiled regime critic (and Washington Post Global Opinions columnist) wrote eloquently about the Arab world's longing for democracy.
In his last column for The Post, he bemoaned how the lack of freedom in most of the region's countries left their citizens "either uninformed or misinformed.