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Reza Pahlavi. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia.

The ayatollah-led regime will soon fall, says Iran’s exiled crown prince

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Israel and Iran are archenemies; that is a simple fact of the modern Middle East. So much so that is it easy to forget that this was not always the case. In fact, Iran...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on March 9, 2016. Photo by Flash90.

Biden urges democracy abroad, but will it apply to Palestinians?

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In a stirring speech last week, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke eloquently of America’s commitment to fostering democracy and civil rights around the world. I wonder if any leaders of the Palestinian Authority were...
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A wake-up call for democracy

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Accusations of voter suppression in the lead-up to the U.S. elections and of voter fraud since then have led some Americans to express concern about the nature of their democracy. Yet the instability that the...
November 3, 2020: People waiting for elections's results in Washington D.C., USA. Photo by Ted Eytan

GOP Has Become a Danger to U.S. Democracy

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While I cheer Biden’s victory in the presidential election, I lament the state of the union Trump is leaving behind. Sadly, Biden’s victory has not been a repudiation of Trump, as he received more...
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of victimhood

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With so many crises and news events swirling around us, it’s not easy to notice an underlying cultural shift that may threaten the very essence of America. The COVID-19 pandemic, tribal political warfare, racial unrest...

The only way to stop socialism is to decentralize the internet

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The internet was born out of efforts to build a decentralized network that could survive a nuclear war. What made the internet so liberating in its early years of mass adoption was the very...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud Party event in Lod, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Why Netanyahu must not step down

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“ … indictment is not evidence of guilt and does not detract from the presumption that the accused is innocent.” — Nathan Lewin, a leading U.S. attorney with more than 55 years of experience in trial and appellate...
U.S. President Donald Trump signing legislation in the Oval Office, January 2018. Source: White House.

Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating

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“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”–Plato, The Republic For US President Donald J. Trump, policy making by imposed chaos has become normal. Again and again, we...

“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline

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“There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings of the irrational.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952) The...

Democracy, Human Rights, and the Limits of International Interventions

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Is it time to reexamine the applications of traditional foreign policy paradigms in light of the complicated contemporary realities? Several recent developments challenge the understanding of limits of international interventions in political or diplomatic context. The...