What is the difference between a theocracy and a monarchy? How many sovereign states are in the European Union? What is federalism in Canada? What is the difference between state and nation? What is the difference between a state and a nation? What is the difference between theocracy and dem...
Since the 1980s, the increasing demand for political correctness has been alternately praised, criticized, and satirized by commentators from all corners of thepolitical spectrum. The term is sometimes applied derisively in order to ridicule the idea that language is capable of change—or that the ...
Al-Atareb is seen as an important conquest to many because it is in a highly strategic area, both from the logistic and economic point of view, because here one finds the main route of connection between Aleppo and the Bab Al Hawa pass (the only official border crossing with Turkey). Th...
What is the basic aim of a direct democracy? What is the goal of a representative democracy? How can we define government? What is the relation between human rights and democracy? What is meant by the term decentralization? Which principles are essential to a balanced democracy? What does aut...
Likehere(archived), the rector of Shahid Beheshti University,Alireza Zali, offers condolences to Soudeh, his message is followed by the key points of Hassan’s biography. “I offer my condolences to the deceased’s family, especially to his educated offspring, Dr. Soudeh Ghafourifard, professo...
The major schisms between Shia and Sunni Islam led to further divisions into distinct faith and ethnic groups, a process which is still carrying on. Wahabi theologians who have inspired some of the most hard-line new conservatives among Sunnis are not accepted by most Sunnis around the...
is claimed she had worn for the past year and a half. We were in tears, awe and very moved by her walk on the tarmac, toward her parents and sister, and we also were “treated” to witnessing the long embrace with her family. Soon, though, if one follows the media reaction, the ...
Something happened in the locker room at half time and the Big Three began to lose. America’s hunger for goods is not waning. Imported goods are increasingly meeting the demands of this hunger, and the trade deficit hurts the US economy. Bottom line, Kevin Phillips in American Theocracy ...
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
The Supreme Court has held several cases over its lifetime dealing with a number of issues considered to be politically controversial. One of those issues is abortion. The seminal cases dealing with abortion include Roe v. Wade, which ruled for a woman's right to choose an abortion without ...