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It’s been well over three months since Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party ex-leader Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt’s first democratically elected, post-revolutionary, non-military president and yet it all feels too familiar. Far from feeling that things have changed since the mass protests of  January 25th,2011 and the […]

If in America the political battle is waged on the premise of economic policy, with low taxes and free markets on the one side and regulation and progressive taxation on the other, in Slovenia the battle is fought over ideological views of events that happened during and after the Second […]

Democracy apart, there is no other idea so often extinguished, despised, rejected as irredeemably utopian and reborn again and yet again as the deep human need for justice. Even so, less noble human characteristics such as greed, envy, arrogance, intolerance and aggressiveness, combined with our tendency to avoid responsibility seem […]

Politicians and advocates frequently criticise the state for treating Arabs as “second-class citizens.”

It only took a few days to collapse the government, but it may take years to rebuild and revive the nation.