by Antonis Cotzias Art by David Ko 2049 Thousands of people live on floating city-nations, having chosen their own government and the rules by which they will be governed. “Seasteads” compete with one another for citizens, and the government sector produces radically better laws and evolves. Governments on land continue to be forced to adapt to this new reality and [...]
by Katherine Kelly Art by Kayla Fuchs As occupying places with populist vigor is now en vogue, the inclusion-exclusion issue framing is commonplace. “We are the 99%,” protestors shout, deliberately separating themselves from the elite top 1% wage earners in the country. However, this kind of rhetoric isn’t exclusive to the Occupy protests; political candidates across the ages have capitalized [...]
by Steven Jaffe. Cross-Posted from the DP’s Red and Blue blog. Yesterday, I wrote that Newt Gingrich could significantly benefit from attacking a vulnerable Herman Cain in Saturday night’s two-person Lincoln-Douglas debate. Gingrich certainly did plenty of attacking. He attacked the typical debate structure, preferring the Lincoln-Douglas style, in which he and Cain could “talk in a non-30-second, non-trivial way.” He [...]
by Alex Lustick. Cross-posted from the Daily Pennsylvanian. The inability of our divided government to pass domestic spending and jobs legislation is appalling. What’s more is that the press has been covering this issue since the debt crisis in the early summer, and still it seems as though no progress has been made to facilitate cross-aisle deals. Read the full [...]
by Willie Trieger. Cross-posted from the Daily Pennsylvanian’s Red and Blue blog On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Israeli Defense soldier Gilad Shalit was released by Hamas after more than five years of captivity. Israel received Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. On the surface, this looks like a terrible strategic move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These released Palestinians include [...]
By Daniel Cooper. Cross-posted from the Daily Pennsylvanian’s politics blog, The Red and Blue: What does Occupy Wall Street do? The movement shows individuals that their frustration with the current political economy of the nation is mutual – rather than individual – knowledge. People knew of the systemic failures in the nation’s current economic and political structures individually but did [...]
By: Nathan Emmons Edited by: Urja Mittal Strange things are afoot in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. To paraphrase “The Daily Show” correspondent Larry Wilmore, it would be something special for the first black president to be kicked out of the White House by the second one. After five months on the campaign trail, the lone black candidate [...]
By: Jim Santel Edited by: Emily Kim On NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, Senator John Thune (R-SD) became the latest in a long line of politicians and pundits to attempt to redeem the debt struggle as something more than a grim apotheosis of legislative irresponsibility. The showdown, Thune said, represents “a broader philosophical debate about the size, the role, [...]
by Darina Shtrakhman East or West? Turkey has been debating this question as long as it has been a country, perhaps even since the Ottoman era a century earlier. After World War II, Turkey made a name for itself by maintaining a secular democracy in a predominantly Muslim country — an impressive straddling of Middle Eastern and Western values which has [...]
by Mihir Garud It took just 18 days for one of the most entrenched leaders in the Middle East, Hosni Mubarak, to be forced out of power. Despotic leaders from around the region are feeling the pressure that revolutions may be inevitable. Leaders in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are struggling to prevent their countries from losing [...]
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