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The 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida led to the widespread adoption of electronic voting machines in the United States. Yet these machines have proven to…
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Russia joined the fighting in Syria under the pretext of preventing the spread of terrorism on its own territory. The result, however, is that a whole…
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A Covid-19 outbreak and voter apathy guarantee a low turnout and weaker democratic mandate for the winner of Nov 8 polls Myanmar is heading to polls…
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The vice-presidential debate maintained the focus on the US administration’s disastrous mishandling of the pandemic The prevailing wisdom says that vice-presidential debates are merely sideshows to…
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There is a massive overlap between Western liberal democracies and medal contenders in the Winter Games – enough to gut Beijing’s Olympic dreams. As China’s dismal…
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The ‘Quad’ meeting of Indian, Japanese, US and Australian foreign ministers in Tokyo earlier this week has resulted in the usual suspects saying the usual things.…
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For the last 25 years, Dr. Firdausi Qadri has advocated for an affordable vaccine to save lives from cholera. While all of us are focused on…
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Donald Trump’s diagnosis doesn’t change the electoral fundamentals Donald Trump has just created the biggest October surprise in American electoral history, and we won’t know for…
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Estimating the long-term effect of the current pandemic is not an exact prediction of the future, but an exercise in weighing probabilities and adjusting current policies.…
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Three questions to Richard Giragosian Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous and landlocked disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The region is ethnically Armenian, and run by self-proclaimed…
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed over a million people globally and disrupted healthcare and political systems, economies, social bonds and religious practices. What can South Africa’s…
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Foreign ministers from Australia, the United States, Japan and India met in Tokyo on Tuesday for what was only the second formal ministerial meeting of the…
