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How the United Nations could ruin the Internet
It is again open season on the Internet in Dubai, where the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency ‑ whose mandate includes global communications ‑ is weighing proposals from many of its 193 member nations. Some of these proposals ‑ such as decentralizing the assignment of website names and eliminating Internet anonymity ‑ would make enormous changes to the organization and management of the Internet.
The trouble with democracy, from Cairo to Johannesburg
If there is a common ground, the surest way to reach it is for there to be more democracy in Egypt, not less.
Obama faces only hard choices in Mideast
The president must address the problems of the region in a more deliberate and transactional manner – not with the transformational zeal of his first year in office.
Thank the lord the Times isn’t the newspaper of record
Some thought the New York Times neglected its duty as the paper of record when it didn't cover Bradley Manning's pretrial testimony. But there is no paper of record, nor does there need to be.
How conspiracy theorists want to steer us towards the cliff
Doomsdayer opinion may not be a dominant chord, but it is prominent. And it may explain in part why our public debate about fiscal cliffs, taxes and the economic future can verge so quickly into dark, deep and destructive passions.
One big reason for GOP optimism
States are where the serious reforms take place over the next two years. Exhibit A is Michigan, on the cusp of enacting a right-to-work law that the White House vehemently opposes.
The perils of cliff-diving
Going over the fiscal cliff would trigger a decline in the economy of $1.6 trillion – roughly 10 percent of GDP. This would be biggest year-to-year decline since 1932.MOST COMMENTED
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