Tag: democracy

Summertime Blues in Old Europe?

Foreign Affairs Summertime Blues in Old Europe? America’s freedoms remain its greatest strength; Europe is falling behind. Credit: image via Shutterstock Traveling in Europe as an American citizen, one is never far from the echoes of history. I was reminded of this during a weeklong visit last month to four Central and Eastern European nations – the Czech Republic, Austria, ...

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How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots

Is there a problem with universal mail-in balloting?  Sounds simple enough: You fill out a ballot, stick it in the mail; somebody counts it on Election Day. In fact, we already do that with absentee ballots, right? So why would universal mail-in balloting be any different?  Well, the biggest difference is that with absentee ballots, the voter specifically asks for ...

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America Needs a Transfusion – Part II

Commentary In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful of losing what they had ...

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