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It’s Possible to Salvage Canadian-American Friendship―and Much More

Canada and the United States have frequently maintained that they have a special relationship, characterized by the world’s longest…

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Supporters Of Capitalism Are Victims Of Their Own Cognitive Biases

People who believe capitalism is working out great are just sloppy thinkers who’ve fallen victim to survivorship bias and the…

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No Safe Haven for “Little Bibi” Netanyahu

Yair “Little Bibi” Netanyahu, the eldest of the two sons of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—Israel’s “Crime Minister,” as some of his critics call him—was reportedly “urgently” evacuated…

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How Elections Work in Ohio: Balance of power, the US Constitution, and local elections

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Theocratic Fascism and the Emerging Political Order of the Middle East

This essay examines whether political mechanisms historically associated with fascism are necessarily dependent upon secular nationalism, or whether analogous mechanisms can emerge within a religious revolutionary state. The Islamic…

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Ray Miller

Ray Miller was a Change Agent

I first met Senator Ray Miller in August of 2006 when I arrived at The Ohio State University from Purdue University where I taught for eight years, but I was familiar with his work long before then. Simply put, Senator Miller was a stalwart in…

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You're A Terrorist If You Resist Genocide Or Mass Surveillance

The US has joined the UK in adding the activist group Palestine Action to its list of designated terrorist organizations.

The UK proscribing Palestine Action was already arguably the most insane attack on free speech in recent western…

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The CIA's John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow

Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport…

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