The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

Notably, genetic testing is not a new approach to “female eligibility” in sport. Rather, it revives an old model – last widely used in 1990s – which was deemed unscientific, unethical, and ultimately ...

Even Colombia’s propensity for civil conflict throughout those one and half centuries has been attributed to bi-partisan hatred. Uribe was the first President, who ran, and won, as an outsider of that ...

And the Trump administration has learned that it can force universities to cave in by following (and controlling) the money. In a modern state, virtually all corners of society – even institutions ...

It is far too early to tell how successful this litigation will be, not least because the United States Constitution, at least since the New Deal, has been interpreted in a way decidedly friendly to ...

This competition between parties has materialized in fierce forms, which only speaks to the vigour of political contestation following the end of Taiwan’s decades-long martial-law rule in 1987. Upon a ...

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Following the 1924 Constitution, which was the first pro-communist constitution proclaiming the independence of Mongolia – postulating that Mongolia is a free country and would remain independent from ...

Constitutionally, the qualification matters a great deal, as the imposition of a tax comes with a wholly different set of constitutional approvals and its own body of rules and principles. The power ...

During that time, the French state strategically sent white settlers to New Caledonia to alter the island’s demographic composition and suppress Kanak nationalism. According to the most recent census, ...

The United States is in debt and needs revenue. The Republican Party controls Congress and in theory can pass any legislation it wishes. However, the Party is generally more known for favoring ...

The Grand Chamber (GC) ruled that Caster Semenya did not benefit from a fair hearing contrary to Article 6 §1 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). However, it did not extend Switzerland’s ...