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One More Washington Regulator Cashes in at Your Expense

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.11.2011 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Revolving Door, Fcc, Comcast, AT&T;, Randall Stephenson, Meredith Baker, Corruption, Comcast NBC, Beltway, Politics News
Timothy Karr

The head of the company that makes more political contributions than any other has graced our capital with his presence. It's little wonder that people are so nauseated by business as usual in Washington.

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Happy Birthday, Israel!

David Harris | Posted 05.08.2011 | World

Read More: Israel, Middle East, World News, Israel Birthday, Nobel Prize, Democracy, Holocaust, World News
David Harris

Considering Israel's extraordinary history, each birthday is a cause for celebration and admiration. It's quite a story -- and it drives Israel's foes bonkers.

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Florida Voter Suppression Bill Toxic for Democracy

Rishi Manchanda | Posted 05.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Rick Scott, Physicians, Civic Engagement, Health, Florida, Doctors, Democracy, Patients, Health Care, Voting, Politics News
Rishi Manchanda

The Florida legislature just passed House Bill 1355, which many civic participation advocates view as part of a worrisome national trend to suppress v...

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Osama Bin Laden: He Had It Coming

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.05.2011 | World

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Yemen, Tunisia, Sharjah, Saudi, Obl, Abu Dhabi, Democracy, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dubai, Gulf, Arab Spring, Middle East, Egypt, Arab, Doha, Al Jazeera, Kuwait, September 11th, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

For ten years millions of Arabs were held hostage due to the acts of a minority. During this time tens of thousands of lives were lost in senseless violence that only a megalomaniac would be able to justify.

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Pervez Musharraf: "Pakistan Didn't Know Where Bin Laden Was"

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 05.04.2011 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Middle East, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Democracy, Drones, Osama Bin Laden, Isi, World News
Elisabeth Braw

Osama bin Laden's death "is a big victory for the peace-loving people of Pakistan and the world," former President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan told me on Monday.

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Proud to Be an American

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.04.2011 | World

Read More: Haaretz, Terrorism, Bradley Burston, Israel, Holocaust, Democracy, United States, Barack Obama, America, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Bradley Burston

A long, long night is coming to an end. We are waking to a new day for the world. We are waking to a new day for America. For the entire lifetimes o...

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Teach Youngsters Politics, Not Civics: Educate Them for the Realities of Citizenship

Herbert Gans | Posted 05.02.2011 | College

Read More: Citizenship, Public Schools, Education, Social Studies, Economics, School Boards, High School, Democracy, Campaign, College News
Herbert Gans

Take a close look at America's public school curricula sometime and you will discover how few courses help students cope with the real world they will face as adults.

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The Unpunished Politicians and the Eroded Democracy of Greece

Thanos Dimadis | Posted 05.02.2011 | World

Read More: Democracy, Greeks, Greek Debt Crisis, Greece, Politicians, World News
Thanos Dimadis

Although ancient Greece is considered to have transmitted the light and ideas of democracy throughout the world, nowadays modern Greece seems to lack ...

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Fixing America's Schools: Turning From Mediocracy To Democracy

Dan Ross | Posted 05.01.2011 | Education

Read More: Public Schools, Education Reform, School Boards, National Standards, Democracy, Mediocracy, Education News
Dan Ross

The truth is that we Americans are so blinded by our I's that we are failing to see the most glaring problem facing our schools: we have no vision for what we want them to do.

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Emotional Emergency: Looking at our own Resilience

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Royal Wedding, Secular Jew, President Obama, Christmas, Guantanamo, Nuremberg, Democracy, God, Camelot, Patriotism, Jew, Humanity, Sabbath, Trump, Afghanistan, Nazi, Torture, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

We interrupt the royal wedding programming to give you urgent sources of obligatory worry if democracy is to become more than a word.

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Does Government Know Who the Boss Is?

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.26.2011 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Nlrb, Unions, Trade, Labor, Politics News
Dave Johnson

With labor-law enforcement -- or even a sense that workers should have rights -- seemingly a thing of the past, anti-worker sentiments are spreading.

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When Will the Arab Awakening Wake Up Washington?

Scott MacLeod | Posted 04.25.2011 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Egypt Protests, Shadi Hamid, Middle East Protests, William B. Quandt, Egypt Revolution, Obama Egypt, Obama Middle East, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Democracy, Obama Foreign Policy, World News
Scott MacLeod

Obama's approach to the Middle East is hopelessly adrift. He is hesitant to truly embrace the Arab freedom movements and failing to lead Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

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The Pace of Democracy, to Each His Own

Fred Teng | Posted 04.25.2011 | World

Read More: China, Jasmine Revolution, Cultural Revolution, 1989, Beijing, Ai Weiwei, Democracy, U.S., United States, Civil War, Tiananmen Square, Sedition Act, Liu Xiaobo, Jim Crow, Jon Huntsman, Human Rights, Segregation, Mccarthyism, Slavery, Deng Xiaoping, Separate but Equal, World News
Fred Teng

On April 6, 2011, the U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman gave an eloquent speech at the Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture in Shanghai. In his speech, Ambas...

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How The Arab Spring Remade Obama's Foreign Policy

newyorker.com | Ryan Lizza | Posted 04.25.2011 | World

Read More: Arab World, Arab World Unrest, u.s. Foreign Policy, Middle East, President Obama, Democracy, Arab Revolutions, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

Barack Obama came to Washington just six years ago, having spent his professional life as a part-time lawyer, part-time law professor, and part-time s...

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Nigeria -- What's Next?

Margee Ensign | Posted 04.24.2011 | World

Read More: Political Participation, Uganda, Violence, Sustainable Development, Democracy, Economic Growth, Gender, Government, Social Media, Religion, Post-Election, Women's Rights Equity, Political Power, Nigeria, Participation, Rwanda, Voting, Women, Elections, World News
Margee Ensign

There are large disparities in access to education and health care for girls and women. Until the world's women have a voice, we will never build safe, equitable, open and participatory societies.

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Yet Another Poll Shows... Plutocracy Stupid, Democracy Smart

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.20.2011 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Budget Deficit, Democracy, Spending, Plutocracy, Public Opinion, Public Opinion Polls, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Here's the thing: what the public wants actually would fix the borrowing. And what the plutocrats want would make it worse. So maybe the public isn't that stupid after all.

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Arabs Give Neocons a Reality Check

James Zogby | Posted 04.16.2011 | World

Read More: Egypt Protests, Arab World, Libya, Yemen, Middle East, Tunisia, Donald Rumsfeld, Neoconservatives, Democracy, Syria, World News
James Zogby

The developments that have unfolded since Tunisia have all been generated internally, putting to rest the patronizing mythology that change could only come to the Arab World if induced by external, Western pressure.

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Subverting Democracy, Abusing the Process

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.14.2011 | Green

Read More: Politics, Puppy Mills, Wolves, Endangered Species, Democracy, Dogs, Legislation, Animal Protection, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

House and Senate leaders allowed a provision tucked into the bowels of the massive federal spending bill, which will remove wolves in the Northern Rockies from the list of endangered species.

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Azerbaijan's Autocratic President Keeps Pro-Democracy Activists at Bay

Jeff Burbank | Posted 04.13.2011 | World

Read More: Corruption, Former Soviet Union, Protest, Democracy, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Baku, Censorship, Ilham Aliyev, World News
Jeff Burbank

Protesters have built momentum toward what they hope leads to a society free of President Aliyev's authoritarian rule that clamps down on the news media and critics of his government.

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Energy, Earthquakes, and Democracy

Jay Mandle | Posted 04.13.2011 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Japan Earthquake, Energy Policy, Campaign Finance, Democracy, Green News
Jay Mandle

Here is a statistic that might help to place in perspective both the desperate struggle of the Japanese to regain control of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station and the equally desperate effort by the people of the Arab world to gain control of their governments.

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Nigerian Elections Off To A Strong Start

Joe Trippi | Posted 04.11.2011 | Politics

Read More: Goodluck Jonathan, Democracy, Politics, Africa, Nigeria, Election, Politics News
Joe Trippi

Full Disclosure: As someone who has been active in both advising on and overseeing elections in Africa and Nigeria, I have worked for several pro-demo...

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"Will Arabs Be Able to Form Real Democracies?"

James Zogby | Posted 04.09.2011 | World

Read More: Arab World, Elections, Democracy, Voter Disenfranchisement, American History, Middle East, Revolution, Protest, Voting, World News
James Zogby

The test of the vitality and validity of democracies that may emerge in Arab countries will be in their ability to self-correct, change, and expand.

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On Eve of Nigeria's First Election Round: It Is Time to Get It Right

Amb. Robin Renee Sanders | Posted 04.08.2011 | World

Read More: Nigeria Elections, Nigerian Government, Democracy, Nigeria, Nigeria Election Fraud, World News
Amb. Robin Renee Sanders

After significant logistical missteps that sent serious concerns throughout the Nigerian electorate, the country is hoping the rescheduled first-round elections get off on the right foot.

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Wisconsinites Strike the First Blow

Jim Worth | Posted 04.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Florida, Governor Walker, David Prosser, Koch Industries, Democracy, Citizens United, Democrats, Toy Recalls, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Koch Brothers, JoAnne Kloppenburg, Voters, Michigan, Ohio, Republicans, Military-Industrial Complex, Politics News
Jim Worth

The Supreme Court election in Wisconsin was the first battle in a protracted fight for democracy. Wisconsin voters, angered by recent political devel...

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Daisy Khan, the "Ground Zero Mosque" -- And 700 Million Muslim Women

Jesse Larner | Posted 04.06.2011 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Yemen, Pamela Geller, Sufism, Tunisia, Women's Islamic Spiritual Equality, Tawakkol Karman, Democracy, Mozn Hassan, Women in the Muslim World, Nawal El-Saadawi, American Society for Muslim Advancement, Feisal Abdel Rauf, Egypt, Daisy Khan, More Magazine, Sean Hannity, Islamic Community Center, Newt Gingrich, Politics News
Jesse Larner

Khan is a warm, thoughtful, and charismatic person, who very clearly explained her commitment both to democracy and open society.

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