WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday night returned to the theme of change he campaigned on, outlining a series of proposals aimed at boosting the economy and reforming the political system that now threatens to crush his signature health care reform plan. Delivering his first State of the Union address, Obama showed no evidence that the brutally partisan health care debate had left him cowering.
Not many people know about the appeal that Akbar Ganji and Abdel Karim Sourouj hold for millions of Iranians who are eager to see change in their political system. Not many know that Syrians call the human rights dissident Riad al Turk "their Nelson Mandela." It is not well known that the Moroccan Fatima Mernissi and the Lebanese Asma Maria Andraos represent a growing number of educated Arab women who are engaged in effective grass roots promotion of democracy. Few are aware that Khalil Shikaki is one of many Palestinian intellectuals who contribute to democracy building and dialogue with Israel. To learn more about signs of hope through people's yearning for justice, human rights and freedom in the Middle East, read the latest book by [Robin Wright], "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of ...
The wife of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo said Tuesday she hopes to travel to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on his behalf, though for now she can only leave her Beijing home under police escort. China, meanwhile, claimed the award was an attack on the country and an attempt to change its political system, and retaliated by canceling another set of meetings with the Norwegian government.
In a decision last week that made education reformers cheer, Judge Martin Agran of Cook County Circuit Court rejected the state of Illinois' and ISBE's request to dismiss our lawsuit But what really excites us is the court's ruling that our central claim-that the state's funding system violates the civil rights of poor and minority students - has merit So while the judge's ruling doesn't settle the case yet it marks a major milestone, a major hurdle cleared. In other words, we're going to have our day in court. We are thrilled by this victory," said [Lisa Scruggs], the Jenner & Block law partner who is lead counsel for this case. "Now the plaintiffs turn their focus to litigating the disparate impact discrimination claim in the trial court. We look forward to proving that the schoo...
... State Board of Education to force a change in the way public schools are funded. That system ... that ran this week in the Springfield political blog Capitol Fax, journalist Rich Miller described...
I've examined this race in every possible way," he continued, "and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion: If I run, the likely result would be a brutal and highly negative Democratic primary - a primary where the winner emerges weakened and the Republican strengthened. I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York and give the Senate majority to the Republicans. "But as I traveled around New York," he observed, "I began to understand why the party bosses felt the need to use such heavy-handed tactics: They're nervous. New Yorkers are clamoring for change. Our political system - so bogged down in partisan fighting - is sapping the morale of New Yorkers and preventing government at every level from fulfilling its duty." The former Tennes...
Obama's the choice To the editor -- Something quite astounding is happening on the political scene lately. Barack Obama is turning the established political system upside down. His message of change and hope is resonating with a broad spectrum of voters that includes Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. After seven years of failed policies and disastrous leadership, this country is hungering for a change of direction. Sen. Obama's rise from the role of junior senator of Illinois to being the frontrunner in the race for the presidency of the United States is nothing less than phenomenal.
This has been a good year for taking stock of the state of the political system. The reason is that this has been a year of major political change, as drastic as our politics gets, with the Democrats taking charge of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Times of change are good for a reckoning because times of quiet and stasis can be misleading. Specifically, people begin to attribute the mere continuation of the status quo for perfectly ordinary reasons to supposedly new structural characteristics governing outcomes. And then they waste a lot of time trying to remedy the deficiencies of the new structure, rather than getting back to basics.
Turkey has been undergoing major democratic transformations in recent years, but one issue remains in question: the role of the military. Have these democratic changes also included an irreversible, structural change for the Turkish military's political role? Are the Turks reconceptualizing their special bond with the armed forces and most importantly, is the military leadership ready to go along with this paradigm shift? This article first provides a typology of civil-military relations worldwide and identifies the main parameters of traditional Turkish civil-military relations as a system in which society maintains a direct, special bond with its military, keeping politics and politicians in a secondary position. It then suggests that this pattern is shifting into a more democratic on...
One would think that if there was a political system that no one really liked, and some absolutely hated, that those in charge of the political system would change it. Makes sense.
Obama's the choice To the editor -- Something quite astounding is happening on the political scene lately. Barack Obama is turning the established political system upside down. His message of change and hope is resonating with a broad spectrum of voters that includes Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. After seven years of failed policies and disastrous leadership, this country is hungering for a change of direction. Sen. Obama's rise from the role of junior senator of Illinois to being the front-runner in the race for the presidency of the United States is nothing less than phenomenal.
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