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September 9, 2021
United States
Seven Documentaries Worth Watching About 9/11
With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks this Saturday, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. Today: seven documentaries about 9/11.
December 24, 2013
Egypt
Egypt Ends the Year With Prison Sentences
On December 18, Egyptian security forces raided the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), a leading think tank. The timing is extraordinary, because foreign diplomats and human rig…
January 24, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
Identity Politics in South Africa
The African National Congress (ANC), which has governed South Africa since the 1994 transition to “non-racial democracy,” traditionally eschewed identity politics. Though its electoral support was ov…
August 6, 2018
Zimbabwe
The Likely Way Out of Zimbabwe's Election Crisis
Mnangagwa's victory was promptly and shamefully endorsed by African Union observers and those from the Southern African Development Community, but questioned by observers from the European Union, the National Democratic institute and the International Republican Institute, and, most important, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, a local NGO umbrella that deployed 6,500 observers around the country.
September 23, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Tom Steyer, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Tom Steyer announced on February 29, 2020, that he was ending his campaign. Can lightning strike twice? Tom Steyer hopes that it does. Back in 2016, Donald Trump was a billionaire business…
