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Hundreds of thousands on the streets (in a nation of nine million). Officers of elite military units threatening to refuse duty. High technology firms…
Alan Dowty
In a recent survey, about three-quarters of Republicans opted for either Donald Trump or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as their preferred 2024…
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Prime Minister Netanyahu claims that curbing the Israeli Supreme Court’s right to invalidate legislation is actually a defense of democracy rather than…
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Thirty years ago Francis Fukuyama could write about the global ascendancy of democracy, but since then democracy has slipped downward throughout the…
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February 2023

Antisemitism, by any definition, has been on the rise worldwide for the last few years. But is there at least, among those alarmed by this trend, an…
Alan Dowty
Perspective 96. Inequality in the United States: On the Rise? President Biden, in his State of the Union address, clearly tried to reconnect with the…
In the last week of January two Palestinian gunmen – one only 13 years old – killed seven Israelis and wounded another five. In the same week Israeli…
Alan Dowty
The January 6 committee brought out the details of Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert the presidential election of 2020. Clearly what he had in mind…
Alan Dowty

January 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been forced “with a heavy heart” to accept a Supreme Court ruling that Arye Deri, leader of the coalition party…
Alan Dowty
At the beginning of each new Congress, the U.S. Senate has a chance to change its rules and dump the filibuster, which allows a minority of 41 Senators…
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The recent Israeli election produced a government giving the far right and religious sectors more power than ever before. Leftists, and most centrists…
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December 2022

The select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has referred four charges against then-President Trump to the Justice…
Alan Dowty
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