In a statement to Open Democracy, Nurbek Toktakunov, legal counsel to Sapar Isakov, said that his client is being “persecuted by the new regime”: “He [Isakov] was under a ‘black media campaign’ by state media and state trolls on social media for several months to ‘justify his..…
By creating narrow of gender, The New York Times reports that Trump administration is attempting to eliminate the rights of transgender people. ..…
Twenty days United States Defense Secretary James Mattis hosted officials from the two US allies at Pentagon.. ..…
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This is how to think about President Trump's decision to walk away from Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty. ..…
In the quest to change Israel's very nature, Netanyahu government is pushing Palestinians to the edge with the support of Trump White House, says Dan Steinbock... ..…
Nothing that Republicans are doing today is new. In the early days of the republic, Lichtman writes, members of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party raised regular allegations of voter fraud and sought to require men to bring to the polls proof of their property qualifications. ..…
Andrew Gelman, a professor of statistics and political science and director of Columbia’s Applied Statistics Center, has researched a range of topics, including: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for..…
He fled the U.S. in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive and became a freelance journalist and author...…
Nermeen Shaikh is a broadcast news producer and weekly co-host at Democracy Now! in New York City. She worked in research and non-governmental organizations before joining Democracy Now! ..…
Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Veterans Commissioner Joseph Hickey and Office of Veterans Services would like to invite residents to help with the placement of flags on Veterans graves for Memorial Day. Flag placement will take place at both Glenwood and Woodlawn Cemeteries. ..…
The march of triumphal democracy was, in stark reality, a mere camouflage for an assault on democracy and on freedom on behalf of the burgeoning coalition of technocratic and Big Business elites. . For the new non-ideological party system and demobilized electorate meant also that the..…
Labour democracy reboot . . The same applied to the internal situation within the Labour Party where the radicalised waves of new members in particular were open to a bold lead. ..…
Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse, New York Times (Sunday Review), July 15, 2017 . ..…
Here's the truth about the pollution report Trump tweeted... ..…
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