Word: politicizing
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Growing up in Pakistan, I heard time and time again that Pakistanis were not ready for democracy: they were apathetic, they could not understand the processes or the issues at stake, they were too isolated in their villages or fragmented in their clans. If that was ever true, it is...
Independent analysts, however, remain skeptical. Mark Heller, director of research at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, contends that the gaps on core issues - boundaries, Jerusalem, refugees, water resources, and security arrangements - had hardly been narrowed, let alone overcome. He questions whether the leadership on either side...
The New Hampshire primary is a bizarre manifestation of the American politic. But in many ways, it is also an example of what our democracy should be. Having worked in campaigns and canvassed voters in locales as disparate as San Diego, California and Portland, Maine, I am confident that New...
Yet in sparing the presidency a long and tawdry trial, Mazuz may end up damaging the Attorney General's office and his own reputation for rising above politics. In the Knesset, he is referred to, with both awe and fear, as "Super Manny." He avoids any show of favoritism; even...
Guha intertwines biographies of political leaders with anecdotes that show how ordinary Indians have helped to sustain their extraordinary body politic. During the Emergency, he notes, when public dissent was curbed and newspapers were censored, an article published in an economic magazine under the innocuous title "Livestock Problems in India...