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Is this a Democracy?

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

America has a wonderful democratic constitution.  But it’s not working anymore, at least not the way it was designed to.  The Senate was intended to give each state an equal weight in deliberations, to ensure that a majority did not … Continue reading →

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Morsi’s Power Grab and Return

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

A couple of weeks ago, when writing an essay on the trajectories of the Arab revolts for a book chapter to appear in 2013, I wrote the following: “ [In Egypt] The level of broader education and civil society organization is … Continue reading →

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