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MOSCOW: First, armed police seized some of its books. Next, its director was put on trial accused of stirring up ethnic hatred. And now, quietly, its shelves have been emptied and its volumes packed up, ready to be merged into another library's collection...

Are left and right a feature (or bug) of evolution? The following story first appeared in the Washington Monthly.  If you want one experiment that perfectly captures what science is learning about the deep-seated differences between liberals and...

German Parliament member Reinhard Weisshuhn Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. In the early days of the changes in 1989, a new kind of politics emerged within the opposition movements poised to enter parliaments and governments. Many dissidents had...

“WORKING ON WINGS TO FLY” BY DEBORAH MARIS LADER / WWW.DEBORAHMARISLADER.COM Editors’ note: This article is based on a chapter in Francois-Xavier Vaujany and Nathalie Mitev, eds., Materiality and Space: Organizations, Artefacts and Practices (Basingstoke...

© bluedesign / Fotolia In almost 100 countries throughout the world, parties and parliaments have responded to growing national and international pressure to increase women’s political representation by introducing electoral gender quotas...