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A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

 
 

 
 

Accounting for all of those voices

By Katharine Welch Note of the Editors. Katharine “Katie” Welch is a freshman at Northeastern University majoring in Political Science, studying abroad at ACT and interning at the Dukakis Center. She is from San Fra...
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What They’re Saying About Us Now

Greece in the news up to July 12! In this article from The New York Times on July 1, Paul Krugman offers a logical vindication of Greece as it has been portrayed in the media.   Krugman claims that unduly blaming southern Euro...
 
 
 

The invisible Greek crisis

By Diego Salas Before coming to Greece, the talk of crisis had me shocked; I didn’t know what to expect (people in the streets is what I imagined) — all the riots and talk I had heard were making me apprehensive. After ...
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Greek radicalism in context

By Scott Stewart In last week’s Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman discussed how the global financial crisis has caused a global unemployment crisis and how Europe has become the epicenter of that crisis. He also noted ...
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We don’t get to choose these things

By David Wisner Armchair expert on the Greek sovereign debt crisis that I have portrayed myself to be, you can imagine my relative despondency having read Pavlos Eleftheriadis’ article on Greece’s oligarchs in a rec...
 
 
 

Saying of the day: 4/4/13

  “Science has become a branch of the Democrat Party.” — Rush Limbaugh
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To which party would you be matched if you were a Greek voter? Choose4Greece

Choose4Greece is an online application which calculates voters’ ideological congruence with political parties for the May 6 election in Greece.   To which party would you be matched if you were a Greek voter?   Gr...
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Saying of the day: 2/27/13

  “What does a congressman do? He works a lot and produces little. That’s the reality.” — Tiririca (Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva), Brazilian Congress
 
 
 

What’s that? New York is not Greek?

By Krysta Kalachani Here is a lovely little article full of irony and mockery. Just the way to start my day. The staff at To Kolouri dare to mock members of Golden Dawn in New York City, pointing out that they have committed su...
 

 
 

New from the EU lexicography: Cyprexit

                                Originally posted by Vaggelis Papavasileiou for Eleftherotypia on March 23, 2013).
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