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Romney’s Minority Report
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- October 22, 2012
Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the 2012 campaign that point to the same thing: the Republican Party and its presidential nominee
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Only Two Cheers for Religious Freedom
- Analysis
- October 15, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 2012 Discussing democracy in his 1938 essay “What I Believe” E. M. Forster provocatively writes that “(t)wo cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.” Democracy deserves credit for contributing to a decent public sphere, he says; but it can’t be
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A Peace Prize for the EU
- Analysis
- October 15, 2012
The award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is curious. The stated reasons are fair enough on the face of it: the EU has helped to create a stable and peaceful Europe, to extend democracy and human rights across the continent, and to make war between former bitter adversaries (notably France
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The Central Conundrum of Baird’s UN Speech
- Analysis
- October 8, 2012
It’s too easy to dismiss John Baird’s October 1 speech to the UN General Assembly as simply another exercise in appealing to the party’s base. True, it did precisely that, capturing headlines back home as a “scathing rebuke” to the organization for its failure to address the Syrian situation seriously. But the problem is that
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