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The U.S. Should Get Rid of Its President(ial System)
March 5, 2017 6 min. read

Donald Trump is off to a rocky start in the White House. But the real problem is not the Trump presidency, but the American presidential system itself.

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Legacies of General MacArthur’s ‘Peace Constitution’ still Matter in East Asia
August 20, 2016 9 min. read

Post-war Japan’s constitution was an avant-garde collage of high-edge liberal democratic universal norms that revolutionized an outmoded governance system.

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The Lives of Others: Does Patriot Act Give NSA Authority to Tap Your Phone?
June 18, 2013 17 min. read

  “The Lives of Others,” a film documenting the workings of a surveillance state run by the Stasi, the secret domestic spymasters who kept the Soviet lid on in East Germany from the end of World War II until the wall came down, paints a grim picture of what happens when a government begins to […]

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Yemen Casts its Vote
February 22, 2012 5 min. read

Following much anticipation, Yemenis this Tuesday headed towards the polling stations in the tens of thousands, with lines extending endlessly in the streets of the capital, Sana’a. And if so far the mood is festive, with men and women congratulating one another on what they hope will herald the coming of a new democratic era, […]

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President Zardari's Constitutional Reforms
April 23, 2010 3 min. read

Monday April 19, 2010 – President Zardari made history by signing the landmark constitutional reforms amendment bill into law. Zardari – after taking office 18 months ago – pledged to reform the constitution. He promised that all the anomalies that were created by the dictators to protect their powers will be removed from the constitution. After this amendment the […]

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