In 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Madison v. Marbury, which established the authority of the court to declare a law to be unconstitut...

How a democratic system is designed can be as important as whether the government officials have been elected or appointed. In constructing...

Concerning a new constitution, which is more important: the process or the content? In Egypt in 2012, that most secularists and the Copti...

The UN’s Electoral Complaints Commission recommended in 2009 that Afganistan’s Independent Election Commission invalidate 210 polling stati...

Appealing for unity after the controversial ratification of a draft constitution in December 2012, President Morsi of Egypt pledged in a ...

Perhaps by looking back on one's own time as though it were already historical, it is possible to assess whether what one is witnessing...

Imagine some of the blue-collar unionists in Wisconsin's Capitol in February, 2011 suddenly "losing it," insulting officers o...

Friday, August 16, 2013: A day of anger as proclaimed by Morsi supporters in Egypt. A day of death and carnage. A day of intransigence on b...

In late July 2013, the Obama administration decided that it was not legally required to determine whether the Egyptian military had led a...

In early July 2013, the world was treated to a glimpse of the stark dichotomy punctuated by democracy and civic violence.  Middle-ground is...

The debt of the U.S. Government—some $16 trillion in 2012—can be difficult even to grasp conceptually. One does not run into a trillion of ...

In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, John Acton (1834-1902) wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupt...

On June 2, 2012, an Egyptian court sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for being an accomplice in the killing of unar...

After two weeks in 2011 of mass protests in Egypt for representative democracy and the ouster of President Mubarak, the Egyptian government...

Despite several days of overwhelming popular grass-roots protest in Egypt, on January 30, 2011, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clint...

The question of the role of social media internet companies as protesters have used social-media platforms to communicate before and duri...

I contend that it is in our interest as a species to see that our population size is managed toward a steady state rather than as a maximiz...

Announced in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, on February 7, 2011, voters in the oil-producing south overwhelming chose to secede from the Arab n...