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...However, this is not the only fix that Serbia now needs; too many ghosts from the past still haunt the country. Fugitive General Ratko Mladic, indicted for the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, needs to be apprehended and delivered to The Hague. In order to achieve this, Serbia's security sector - the police, intelligence agencies, and the military - needs to be drastically purged of the old cadre and reformed. And the economy, still largely controlled by the state, needs to be allowed to develop unhindered by the government's heavy hand...
...course, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, who was an early leader on climate change in Congress. (Although his idea of lifting the federal gasoline tax for the summer - which Senator Hillary Clinton also supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive more.) But there are more unlikely green Republicans as well, like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently starred in an Al Gore-sponsored ad with current Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling on Americans to set aside their political differences...
...colonial masters at their own game. Western democracy, as they see it, is hollow. Western governments that were democratically elected at home pursued autocratic colonialism abroad. Even after the end of the age of imperialism, neo-imperialists funneled support to compliant dictators around the world, and relentlessly attempted to fix the rules of the global economy in their favor. According to this view, employing a little election tinkering here and a little intimidation there is merely playing by rules set by the West...
...easy read that is destined to change many minds about America’s inner-city drug trade. The book vividly depicts the unique narratives of its subjects while making clear that they are all part of the same greater socioeconomic tragedy: junkies who live to find their next fix; drug dealers who kill and destroy lives because they have no other options; police who won’t or can’t make a positive difference for those they serve. In the face of this failure, Moskos concludes, passionately, with an argument for the legalization of drugs, comparing...
...reform.”National political leaders and journalists gather today at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for a day-long conference to mull ideas for making those adjustments. Yet a fair question also needs to be asked: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Rather than sweeping “reforms,” a more do-able proposition is a series of tweaks and adjustments to the current processes.We have to begin by asking ourselves: Does the current system “work?” Despite the quadrennial complaint that the current...