All posts in Government & Governance

Nepal
August 11, 2016, 1 Comment

The Cost of Political Instability in Nepal (NYT Editorial) Last week, Nepal’s Parliament elected Pushpa Kamal Dahal as ...

Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Democrats
July 29, 2016, 1 Comment

2016 Democratic National Convention 25-28 July This year’s platform process is the most representative and inclusive i ...

Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans Part II
July 28, 2016, Comments Off on Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans Part II

The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory Barring some bizarre meltdown by the candidate, unexpected clusterfucks o ...

Canada: Liberals 2016-17
March 8, 2016, Comments Off on Canada: Liberals 2016-17

Surprise winner Emmanuella Lambropoulos secures Liberal nomination for Saint-Laurent School teacher beats former provinc ...

Michael Bloomberg 2016
March 7, 2016, Comments Off on Michael Bloomberg 2016

The Untouchable – Can a good mayor amass too much power? The New Yorker August 2009 The Bloomberg Way The mayor of ...

Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans
February 28, 2016, Comments Off on Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans

(The Guardian) Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution New Yorker writer Jane Mayer ex ...

President Obama and the Supreme Court
December 8, 2015, Comments Off on President Obama and the Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States   2015 8 December Politics Are Dominating The Supreme Court This Week. That̵ ...

China: government and governance 2010 – 2015
November 16, 2015, 3 Comments

16 November China rebukes west over stance on terror (FT) Condolences sent to Paris amid ‘opportunistic’ call for fo ...

Canada: Government & governance 2014 -15
October 14, 2015, 2 Comments

See also: Canada (Politics) in 2015; Canada anti-terror Bill C-51 Stephen Harper: The Survivor CBC National Affairs Edit ...

Food and Hunger
July 22, 2015, Comments Off on Food and Hunger

New rice variety could feed the planet without warming it (Science) A new type of genetically modified (GM) rice might s ...

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