What’s critical at this stage is for the government to take serious steps to resource the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission so that it can effectively carry out its mandate of managing the electoral process.
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VIDEO: Trump Towers Protests of U.S. Airstrike on Syria
Hundreds protested in New York City against war in response to the airstrikes ordered by President Donald Trump on a Syrian airbase. Protests took place at Trump Towers and in Union Square.
Now is the Time to Pay Attention
What’s going to be problematic is getting the youth to come back into politics following the 2016 election. Many people will turn to apathy based on the results. However, no fight truly ends after a defeat.
Wrecking Foreign Policy
Given his “transactional” personal psychology and lifetime of terrible business decisions, Trump’s defunding of State is also the obvious logical conclusion of decades of Republican policy.
The Donald Trump Administration: Exposing The Shadow
What is new is a president who makes no attempt to hide his immense personal commercial interests in businesses that are known to be hotbeds of corruption.
VIDEO: NYC March with a Purpose for Ramarley Graham
Five years ago, the NYPD murdered Ramarley Graham, a black unarmed teenager, and brutalized his family in their own home. They had initially trailed Graham for “walking with a purpose.”
Fixing Political Party Funding For Transparency and Accountability
Discretionary power over use of funds by political parties must be exercised justly, fairy, honestly, and, above all, rationally in order to build viable and democratic institutions.
Photos From a March to End the War on Black Lives
At least 200 demonstrators in support of the Black Lives Matter movement came out to tell the public that Mayor De Blasio is not the progressive leader he tries to portray himself to be.
The Majority Illusion: What Voting Methods Can and Cannot Do
If a candidate gets elected that is both not preferred by a majority, then you’ve got a problem. A voting method that regularly makes that bad decision is not a voting method you want.
Polarized America: Why Politics is Taboo
On the political spectrum, more and more people are choosing to identify as conservative or liberal, and the amount of moderates to fill in that gap has been tremendously reduced year after year after year.