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One of the most disappointing aspects of going to an "elite" university was how politically apathetic many of the students were. It is significantly m...
There is only one problem. The law. Yes, the much-cherished "rule of law" and the self-evident "human rights" it is supposed to protect. Hong Kong is a place held captive by an ideological narrative conceived and propagated by a few political and intellectual elites.
In the post-9-11 era, one has been able to interchange the words "Christian," "conservative," "religious," "right," and "Republican" in one sentence without necessarily changing the meaning of the sentence.
Among the victims of mega-corporate power will not only be everyday citizens and their elections, but also small businesses in our country.
Italy's experiment with depoliticized democracy will be closely watched as an antidote to the paralysis and dysfunction that afflicts the West today. If political decay can yield to good governance in Italy, everyone will benefit from the path blazed by Mario Monti.
In 2011, there were few on the outside who could find space for optimism with Pakistan, even some of my Pakistani friends living in the States. "Peopl...
One party has lost its way and has no clue how to get out of the nightmare it's in or which path will take them out of it. What's at stake is control of the most powerful nation in the world.
The optimism generated by the Arab spring is now giving way to anxieties about where these changes are taking Arab societies. The idealism of the you...
Yemen is not like other countries who have been part of the Arab Spring -- it is has very few resources, very little oil, very low levels of literacy and education.
I think this case redefines how we can think about the bigger ideas of citizenship and sovereignty and is a window into the state of democracy in Russia. Let's talk about citizenship first.
In a crisis, people look for a hero. We have been trained to believe that our deliverance can only be found in the one man or woman. The trouble with this way of thinking is that it is unrealistic.
Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" Democracy: "a government in which ...
The Internet blackout was an innovation for sure, but it still belongs in the category of advocacy politics that I'll called "Surround and Punish." What is missing is something the military calls "situational awareness."
The light of democracy is being extinguished across the continent in which it was born. An unaccountable European elite is ignoring the basic principles of democracy and betraying the founding vision of the EU.
Judging from the variety of post-mortems following President Obama's address last night and this morning, yesterday's State of the Union was no exception to the range of responses typically elicited.
Last night, I attended the White House's State of the Union "tweet up," a gathering of a couple hundred new media addicts at the Eisenhower Executive ...
