South America is now in the front line for drug law liberalisation, with Uruguay taking a potentially far-reaching step.
Category: Ideas
Britain, freedom and the EU
David Cameron's Britain is getting cold feet about free movement of people. Is it really the EU bureaucrats who are anti-freedom?
Uneasy times in Thailand
Anti-government protests continue in Thailand, where an elected government faces an opposition that seems to be giving up on parliamentary democracy.
Maoists for democracy
China's communists don't really have to worry about a rival political party, but there's an interesting moral in the reports about what a hard-line Maoist faction is up to.
Can’t white people be terrorists?
Another look at the double standard on attributions of "terrorism", illustrated by last week's shooting at Los Angeles airport.
Searching for libertarians
A new American study has interesting things to say about libertarians and libertarianism.
Turkey gets more connected
A new rail link in Turkey may have political implications down the track.
Dragging God (or Allah) into politics
Is Allah an exclusively Muslim God, or can he be a Christian God as well? The answer, funnily enough, comes down to politics.
Iran and the resonance of the past
Sixty years on from a coup that poisoned Iranian-US relations, the CIA has come clean about its role. It may be a small step forward in a difficult process of reconciliation.
Please don’t feed the beast
Unnecessary military spending is a cancer on democracy, but it takes a case like Egypt to show the real damage that it can do.
The World is Not Enough 