Making MLB All-Star Voting More Democratic
The current voting system has serious flaws. Here's an alternative.
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Saving Israel with Secularism
Israel is growing more religious, threatening its very cultural foundations.
China’s Brain Gain
Can Chinese students with American university degrees bring democracy home to China?
U.S.-Turkey-Iran
The United States must reenergize U.S.-Turkey relations; if it does not, it runs the risk of potentially losing one of its greatest Middle Eastern allies.
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Nostalgic for America’s Holy Texts
The American experimentation with democracy, for all its novelty and nonviolent advancements, was nonetheless riddled with major flaws.
Tea’d Off
Andrew Breitbart's May 2010 defense of the Tea Party in an exclusive interview with the HPR.
An Enduring Love and Loyalty
For over thirty years, Farah Pahlavi has been forbidden from setting foot in the country she once ruled. Married in 1959 to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, she reigned alongside him until the 1979 Islamic Revolution made pariahs of Iran’s powerful royal family, forcing them into the nightmare of exile. In her 2004 memoir An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah, Pahlavi chronicles this nightmare and the years leading up to it with a bias only a proud leader could possess.
Beit Shemesh, Misogyny, and Building a Jewish Democracy
Neither the ultra-Orthodox nor the secular sector in Israel is innocent of gender discrimination.
Spring Awakening’s Impetus and Resilience
The issues that were viewed as so taboo in 1891 become harder to present as “controversial.”
Countermajoritarian Confounder
The least democratic part of American government is unlikely to change anytime soon.
The True Governments of Somalia
Somaliland may be the most stable and smoothest functioning democracy that officially does not exist.
Great Expectations for UN Climate Talks in Durban
While the U.S. flounders in the face of irreversible danger, climate finance and mitigation remain possible hopes
