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April 2016
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The Murder of Berta Caceres and American Foreign Policy
Tourists, government employees, and people strolling through downtown Washington D.C. last week likely noticed two large banners outside the buildings at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. One (...) -
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Rifts, Racism, and Refugees: The German Elections and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Reactions to the refugee crisis have varied throughout Europe, and have led to a particularly polarized political landscape in Germany. As is well known, Germany has become one of the epicenters (...) -
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Democracy and Corruption
“Corruption is much the way Mark Twain once described the weather: everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, CIPE One third of (...) -
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USA Elections 2016: Violence and Currents and Why We Should Worry
When we think of Donald Trump, and the possibility of violence that comes with his candidacy, we might be thinking of what a normal American is and isn’t. What we (the collective we that (...) -
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Brussels: March 22, 2016
The second day of Spring in my hometown, Brussels, started like any other day. I took the kids to school and nursery this morning, then went to work. Or, rather, came back home, where most of my (...) -
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Brazil’s Summer of Discontent
What is striking about the protests in Brazil against the Rousseff government is that these are not coming mainly from the slums or the industrial working class. They mark the collective hatred (...) -
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Can An Indian Spring Be Far Behind?
The past winter months in India were grimly overcast, with gathering dark clouds. A deeply divisive manufactured binary sought to pit youthful idealism and dissent against love for the country. (...) -
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Rule of Law in Trauma
An account of 14 years spent in the darkest recesses of the Indian penal system, Mohammad Aamir Khan’s book is a searing indictment of what passes for terror investigations Terrorism is a form (...) -
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Eco-Socialism or Barbarism-11 Theses
1. The history of capitalism has always been also the history of its crises. This has been so because of its self-contradictory nature, which by itself generates crises and undermines its own (...)
