“The defendants can’t provide sufficient reason to continue to live on the property so the court has decided to allow the plaintiff to take back the property.”
Global Public Square
Prime Minister Obama: Would the U.S. Be Better Served by a Parliament?
Over at the GPS Blog, Fareed Zakaria asks a pointed and valuable question: “Does America need a Prime Minister?” Given the paralysis and farce that has gripped Washington in recent months, it’s worth considering. As Zakaria observes, presidential systems never resolve the “basic contest for legitimacy” between the power of the …
Using Google to Understand the Middle East’s Revolutions
Given the rapid pace of change in the Middle East these days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a bead on what, exactly, the people behind the revolutions are thinking. We can look at new reports and interviews by journalists on the ground, but such endeavors are by default individualistic. Even if I interview 100 Egyptians …
Five Reasons the U.S. Should Not Have Intervened in Libya
Amar Bakshi, my colleague at CNN’s new Global Public Square blog, offers five arguments against U.S. action in Libya, articulated by some of the country’s most prominent wonks and pundits. They range from the realist to the moral to the downright thrifty. Read them all here. Below’s my favorite:
James Fallows says that the American
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