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Without strong parties with clear ideologies, Americans lose out on substantive policy debates. The Green Party and the Reform Party for instance, have strong counterparts in Europe where parties have strength, but lack a significant voice in our elections. Without these parties playing a part in policy debates voters lose...
Wolf's first speech before the state House was to propose $40 million in funding to help immigrants, who had been cut off from social services by federal welfare reform...
...with the U.S., China remains an authoritarian state ruled by an all-powerful Communist party. And there's a furious struggle at the very top of that party over China's economic and political direction - a struggle in which hard-liners obsessed with maintaining order are currently dominant. Arch- reformer prime minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed out of concluding a permanent trade agreement...
...fact that candidates like Nader and Buchanan have emerged indicates a shift in political attitudes yet unrecognized by either major candidate. Voters feel abandoned by the political process, as candidates promise campaign finance reform but take millions of dollars from private interests; while they argue about how the RATS got into their campaign commercials or how they can adopt each other's stance as their own. Many voters have simply become alienated from their own political process. Others are tired of waiting and have begun to work for and seek out their own choices. If the Debate Commission continues...
Education vouchers represent an attempt to jumpstart school reform without increasing funding...