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More than 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, while the economic trends have seemingly been improving across the board, the democratic space has been persistently narrowing and huge challenges remain to establishing institutions that foster market-based democratic change.  Democracy eludes this region.  However, December 2011, the month that marks the 20-year anniversary [...]

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is endorsing Mitt Romney for president. Haley said Friday on Fox News she is throwing all of her support behind Romney in the Republican primaries. She says jobs, the economy and spending are most important and the former Massachusetts governor is the best candidate to address those issues. Haley also [...]

The White House promised a veto Tuesday for a Republican bill renewing a payroll tax cut next year for 160 million workers, complaining that spending cuts that pay for the measure would whack the middle class and require no sacrifice from the rich. The threat came as the House began debating the bill, which would [...]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron effectively vetoed a European Union agreement that would essentially institutionalize a two-speed Europe in an attempt to closer integrate eurozone member nations’ fiscal movements, tighten budget regulations and rebuild market confidence in the euro. The move, critics say, further isolates Britain from the EU, a claim that Foreign Secretary William [...]

Former Vice President Dan Quayle is endorsing Mitt Romney for president. Republican officials on Monday told The Associated Press that Quayle plans to announce his support for the former Massachusetts governor Tuesday afternoon. Romney has an event scheduled Tuesday in Paradise Valley, Ariz., where Quayle has a home. Quayle served as vice president under President [...]

Many Americans still believe that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that politicians, both Republican and Democrat alike, still hold that view and ensure that any and all legislation passed does not violate it. However, in today’s America, the Constitution is effectively a null and void document, nothing more than a [...]

Officials say an $80,000 Stonehenge-like worship center underscores a commitment to embrace all religions. In the still of a cold November evening, a small gathering of pagans, led by two witches, begins preparations for the coming winter solstice. But these are not just any pagans, and this is not just any setting. They are future [...]

It’s costing $2.5 billion and will take more than nine months to get there, but the NASA’s rover Curiosity is going to Mars – the Mars Scientific Laboratory, the space agency’s most ambitious planetary exploration project ever, is scheduled to launch at 10:02 a.m. on November 26 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Curiosity’s mission is [...]

Much has been written about the euphoria surrounding the ousting of Mubarak and the reality of making reforms work in the post-Mubarak era. The lesson that democracy is not built overnight is also frequently brought up. The importance of institutions – not individuals – in shaping political and economic outcomes in Egypt, however, often escapes [...]

There’s a spice blend used throughout the Middle East – za’atar– which is bold, assertive, and unique in flavor. As we witnessed over the last week in Lebanon, those same adjectives might be a way to describe Lebanese entrepreneurs and the flair with which Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is being celebrated here. At the launch [...]