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Innovative gadgets make it easier than ever to rid the country of pesky democracy!
By Joyce McGreevy
January 7, 2005
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Upon the death of Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian journalist he jailed sums up the legendary leader's ambiguous legacy.
By Daoud Kuttab
November 11, 2004
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While the U.S. is busy exporting democracy to Iraq, it should be importing some best democratic practices from the rest of the world, too.
By Eric Weiner
August 6, 2004
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A professor explains why so many people around the world hate us and what a post-Bush foreign policy might look like.
By Stephen Holmes
June 17, 2004
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Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
By Jen Banbury
January 30, 2004
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When people in fledgling democracies vote against U.S. interests, the CIA steps in.
By Robert Scheer
November 12, 2003
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This administration's behavior is an affront to our nation's founders and the democracy they crafted.
By Robert Scheer
June 25, 2003
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American officials are squabbling over how to put post-Saddam Iraq back together again. The fate of the entire region may rest on whether they get it right.
By Laura Miller
April 2, 2003
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A new book argues that when Third World countries embrace democracy and free markets too quickly, ethnic hatred and even genocide can result.
By Michelle Goldberg
January 13, 2003
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Unlike Christianity or Judaism, Islam's religious history is inseparable from its conquests -- which is why the concept of holy war lives on today.
By Richard D. Connerney
October 11, 2001
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Colin Powell gets a hero's welcome and tells Africa's entrenched rulers to step aside.
By Ben Barber
May 28, 2001
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George Will advocates turning the NEA into the Ministry of Politprop; the "South Park" duo agrees to excise the Bush twins from a new program. Plus: Free to be you and me except on Nike iD.
By Carina Chocano
February 8, 2001
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Berkeley professor Orville Schell discusses his role in the publication of papers that shed new light on the Chinese government's crackdown on the 1989 student uprising.
By Daryl Lindsey
February 2, 2001
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How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people.
By Ben Barber
January 11, 2001
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Faced with a choice between cynicism and a higher path, he chooses cynicism.
By Gary Kamiya
November 16, 2000
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From the streets of Paris to offices in Japan, the world chuckles and shrugs at the U.S. election circus.
By Salon foreign correspondents
November 10, 2000
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Noam Chomsky -- Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind
By Noam Chomsky
October 5, 2000
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With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within.
By Laura Rozen
September 6, 2000
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The militarization of police strategies on display this convention season has cops fighting demonstrators, not crime.
By Jesse Walker
August 14, 2000
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President-elect Vicente Fox, a tough-talking cowboy and former head of Coca-Cola Mexico, promises to revolutionize the nation's economy after 71 years of corruption.
By Scarlet Pruitt
July 7, 2000
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One frustrated journalist in Mexico City speaks out about the censorship imposed by his publisher's quid pro quo relationship with the PRI.
By Fiona Morgan
June 28, 2000
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On the eve of the A16 protests, experts discuss the roles of the international financial organizations and the Seattle protests in this weekend's battle over globalization.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 14, 2000
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By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
By Jeffrey Tayler
March 28, 2000
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Are American voters ignorant -- or just apathetic? Plus: Shuttling blame for declining sex drive; polluting Bob Marley's legacy
Letters to the Editor
December 1, 1999
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Some political scientists say it is; others maintain that a brain-dead populace does no damage to our hallowed political system.
By Christopher Shea
November 22, 1999