Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]
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Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists
The reaction to Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s call to reinstate the dissolved parliament was largely negative on Monday and Tuesday morning, except among supporters of […]
Dear Rick Perry: Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)
States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare
[Some responses to this rather damning series have suggested that minority health statistics skew the averages. So in this map, we’ll just look at the […]
Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament
Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi tried to steal third base on Sunday, announcing that he was calling back into session the dissolved Egyptian parliament. It would […]
Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day
Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]
States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare
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Voters in Libya: Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”
Saturday morning, 2.8 million registered voters in Libya went to the polls to choose a parliament for the first time since 1965. One woman standing […]
Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”
What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and mill works, and long walkways to their mansions– […]
Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges
Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]
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