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Russia's democracy soured, the Arab Spring turned to winter, and Latin America gains economic freedom as faith in elections falls. With nationhood strained on the Arabian Peninsula, can liberty come by another road?
On Saturday a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's international airport for the third time in a week. Saudi Arabia says at least twelve people were killed and about three hundred wounded, the deadliest attack on the kingdom in more than a […]
From 1803 until 1890, a French worker who wanted to change jobs had to carry a small booklet, the *livret d'ouvrier*. Each employer wrote in it the date the worker was hired and the date they left, and a worker […]
In 1569 the Duke of Alba, governing the Netherlands for Philip II, asked the States General for three new taxes. The first, the Hundredth Penny, was a one-time levy of one percent on all property. The second, the Twentieth Penny, […]
When competence stops being scarce, who gets to hold the capability?
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Land is a little bit everyone's, and it still doesn't have to belong to the state.
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Self-government at the scale where people actually live: the town, the neighborhood, the watershed.
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