Editor’s Picks
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Unlike US, Europe picks top judges with bipartisan approval to create ideologically balanced high courts
By David Orentlicher, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court immediately sparked…
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The Navalny case: Is the Kremlin innocent?
I begin this column with a declaration that shows my bias: if President Vladimir Putin wanted Alexei Navalny dead he…
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Is it too soon to herald the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’? It all depends what the Saudis do next
By Ben Rich, Curtin University US President Donald Trump heralded nothing short of “the dawn of a new Middle East”…
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‘Ye are Many, They are Few’: Nonviolent resistance to the elite’s Covid-19 coup
On 16 August 1819, an estimated 60,000 pro-democracy and anti-poverty activists were peacefully protesting the utterly corrupt nature of the…
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Evaluating China-Iran “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership”
The news about China and Iran concluding a possible trade and military deal worth US $400 billion promises a much-needed…
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Beirut explosion: the disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not – researchers
By Scott Edwards, University of Bristol and Christian Bueger, University of Copenhagen At the time of writing at least 100…
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4IR for SDG4: Societies must use 4th Industrial Revolution Ed-Tech to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4
By Jonathan Ward For many cosmopolitan observers, this year of successive shocks and sustained stresses to systems and institutions has…
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Is Iran sacrificing the revolution for petrodollars?
By Lindsay Gabow “I have heard that they are negotiating and want to sign a new 25-year agreement with a…
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State and local governments feeling financial effect of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact across the American economy, from massive layoffs to corporations cutting dividends to…
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Israel will not abandon China. The reasons go beyond economics
By Coby Goldberg The Trump Administration is engaged in a global campaign to persuade allies of the China threat. The…
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