06/11/2013
So wait, wait, wait! Why aren't people talking about this one around the water cooler? And please feel free to correct me but are they saying that they abandoned their democracy for an IMF bailout?
Hungary turns away from democracy
In the past year, Hungary has undergone an extraordinary consolidation of power by President Orban. No other nation in Europe has made such sweeping and overnight change in its basic laws and approach, and with little public consultation. The culminating event came Jan. 1 with a new Constitution tha...
06/11/2013
At some point nation to nation relations begin to lose their hue when colored by one nations concept of progress. It is good to see that educational institutions are not balking at the new rules.
Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones
On a bluff overlooking a sweep of Southern California beach, scientists in 1976 unearthed what were among the oldest skeletal remains ever found in the Western Hemisphere.
06/11/2013
Is this the wave of the future? Is this efficiency? How is it that banks and car companies get bailouts but American communities get downsized, and pensioners get the retirements upended?
Troubled RI city in receivership loses democracy
When the state stepped in to take over financially struggling Central Falls in 2010, Rhode Island's smallest city lost something fundamental: its democratic government.
