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Women and politics: new rules

Joan Walsh, commenting in Salon on Hillary Clinton’s Senate hearing today notes that “Clinton stood up to the raging bulls with grace and fire of her own… After [which] she was lectured and hectored by guys wh...
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Toward a new American center?

David Brooks writes in his New York Times column today that President Obama made a strong case for a “pragmatic and patriotic progressivism” in his second inaugural address yesterday. Where does leave the thoughtful...
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More center right, center left

This just in from Fishbowl DC: After dropping out of the presidential election and a two season-long Republican bashing media tour, Jon Huntsman is ready to lead along with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The pair, along with Repub...
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European Year of Citizens 2013

The European Commission has designated 2013 as the European Year of Citizens, to commemorate the creation of European citizenship 20 years ago. In an interview with Deutsche Welle today Justice and Citizenship Commissioner Vivi...
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In praise of public servants

The Dukakis Center hosted the inaugural Business  & Politics Forum in Thessaloniki last month. One of the speakers, Efi Stefopoulou of the General Secretariat of the Government, gave a standing room audience at the Elektra...
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Are we moving leftward?

The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word “Republican” from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Ya...
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Whose child?

An excerpt here of a very strange story from today’s Washington Post, which offers a real challenge to notions of citizenship within the same country. “The Supreme Court decided Friday to take on a case after consi...
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Taxes and citizenship

We rarely equate paying taxes with citizenship these days, although it is certainly one of those old-fashioned obligations we associate with residing in a certain place. French actor Gerard Depardieu (by the grace of God born a...
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Triumph of the statisticians

By Politis “A year in a word: Grexit,” runs the headline of this article in yesterday’s Financial Times. Coined in February 2012, when speculation on Greece’s fate in the eurozone was reaching frenzy, th...
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Center right, center left

The title of a recent analysis in Politico – “The disappearing independent” – struck this reader as personal. I looked down at my hands, at my feet; checked in the mirror to see that my nose, ears, and e...
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Business and Politics in Greece

The lines separating the worlds of business and politics in Greece have often been blurred. Businesses are not free from state intervention, on the one hand, but, on the other, business interests have often played a preponderan...
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Life at uni

There has been a lot of talk of late about the future of higher education in Greece. The public universities might appear to some to be a microcosm of all of Greece, in which things are clearly falling apart. Lo and behold, the...
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We are fed up

By Politis We live in Greece. Most of us are Hellenes, a few others foreigners who reside here by choice; we have all lived and studied abroad. We have different ideological preferences. Some of us work for public entities, oth...
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