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Obama has ordered a Bush-style troop surge in Afghanistan. Warrantless wiretaps of Americans are still allowed. "Don't ask, don't tell" continues to ruin military careers, and Guantánamo is still open and booming. Unless Obama attacks these issues and leads or drags his Democratic colleagues in Congress...
The Dongria don't want to leave their mountain, but that doesn't mean they want to be left in an untouched state of nature. At one point in the film, Avatar's hero, Jake Sully, laments about the Na'vi, "They're not going to make a deal ... There...
The two pillars of this centuries-old voting tradition are initiatives and referendums. An initiative is a proposed amendment to the constitution, which can be brought to a national vote only if the sponsors gather 100,000 signatures. (For the animal-lawyers initiative, supporters collected 144,000 signatures.) A referendum...
Ironically, the Orange Revolution helped prepare the ground for the return of the man it once humiliated. "Some say the Orange Revolution has failed. I say no. Thanks to the Orange Revolution, democratic elections in Ukraine are now a reality," says Matyas Eorsi, the head of a team of election...
To get beyond that image, Yanukovych will have to give substance to his rhetoric and show a real commitment to democratic principles and reforms of the opaque energy sector. He will also need to force Big Business to play by the rules. Success there will depend on how he handles...