Whether the lure of authoritarianism is strong or is awakened in us, whether we’re angry or not: these are the new divisions. As fractured in so many metrics as we are, the result in this new America is we’re all now student-victims at Trump University.
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The disastrous lack of Pakistani female enfranchisement
There are parts of the country where men actively and determinedly prevent women from exercising their right to vote
VIDEO: Democracy and Islamism in Egypt
How will Egypt deal with its deficit of democracy? How will Islam and islamism influence any future democracy?
DR Congo faces nationwide strike after protest deaths
The powerful Catholic Church said it supports calls for a nationwide stoppage in response to a bloody crackdown
Church accuses government of harming Tanzanian democracy
Tanzania’s Catholic church accused the government of violating democratic norms by limiting freedom of expression
Oh No, Jerusalem
Trump’s move, one of the most ill-considered US actions in the Middle East for a generation is just the latest iteration of a dynamic between a horribly unqualified president and the millstone of poison ideologies which will grind the region into dust.
From mediator to mobiliser: The Catholic Church in DR Congo
After having played a mediating role in DR Congo’s political crisis, the Catholic Church is now defying Kinshasa
New Jersey gets first Sikh attorney general in U.S. history
Former Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal became the nation’s first Sikh attorney general
Reviewing the history of religiously unaffiliated voters in America
More unaffiliated Americans identify as independents than as members of the two parties combined
DR Congo braces for unrest as church vows to defy demo ban
Crisis-wracked Democratic Republic of Congo was bracing for fresh unrest Sunday after the country’s influential Catholic church vowed to defy a protest ban and hold a “peaceful march” to urge implementation of a deal for President Joseph Kabila to leave office. Kabila, who march organisers are calling on to say he will not stand for […]