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...really simple remedy to voter fraud, insofar as it even exists, and that is universal voter registration. You can’t pretend to be eligible to vote if everyone’s automatically registered. This is one area among many in which the U.S. lags behind other advanced democracies. Of course, Republicans dread the possibility that we might catch up; an influx of young, poor, and minority voters would cost them many an election...
...official U.S. buzzword for President Obama's visit to China this week is "pragmatic cooperation," but behind the scenes, U.S. diplomats have been aiming for something a little closer to subversion - at least when it comes to getting around China's "great firewall" of official censorship and information control...
...allies in the Militant Clergy Society, an important coalition of reformist Iranian politicians, who released a statement on November 4 that read, "we warn against current ploys to empty the [nuclear fuel] reserves obtained and ask relevant authorities to be insistent in defending this evident right." (See pictures from behind the scenes with opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi...
...Read "Behind Iran's Response on the Nuclear Deal...
...proponents of the program defend it as a much-needed means of promoting healthy sexuality and egalitarian relationships among teenagers. Laura Garrido, president of the Extremadura Youth Council and one of the officials behind the campaign, is surprised and disappointed by the outcry. "What we're talking about is whether we teach them to have healthy relationships or not, whether they have self-esteem or not, whether they know how to say 'yes' or 'no' at a given time," she says. (Read "The Truth About Teen Girls...