Did Erdogan break Turkish politics by empowering the presidency—or was it broken already?

With elections looming large, last month's earthquake bodes ill for Turkey's strongman. 

America is one country and two nations. They will have to coexist; whether they can work together remains to be seen.

There was a joke told during the Cold War about the citizens of the Soviet Union. The Soviet line about human rights was that U.S. human rights and democracy policy constituted an unacceptable interf…