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Colombia: Peace at Any Price?

Cato Institute 

Colombia’s half-century war with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and remains Latin America’s longest armed conflict. After more than three years of talks, the Colombian government and the guerrillas are nearing a self-imposed deadline for the completion of peace negotiations. Despite the support that the peace process enjoys outside Colombia, key provisions already agreed to are leading many to reject the agreement. José Miguel... Читать дальше...

Obamacare’s Millennial Mandate: What Does It Cost, and What Is It Buying Us?

Cato Institute 

Supporters claim the dependent-coverage mandate is one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act. This provision requires employer-based insurance plans that offer dependent coverage to cover dependents up to age 26. Scholars are just beginning to measure the benefits and costs of this mandate. In a forthcoming study, Stanford University economist Jay Bhattacharya examines the effect of this mandate on wages, finding it has reduced cash compensation by $1,200 per covered worker. Asako S. Читать дальше...

8 Great Djokovic Moments

Tennis Now 

As Novak bids for his sixth Miami title this week and his fourth Indian Wells-Miami double, we thought we’d celebrate some of his spine-tingling shot-making. Here’s eight great Novak points that no Nole fan should be without.

Lessons in Censorship

Cato Institute 

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/lessons-censorship-how-schools-courts-subvert-students-first-amendment-rights From the 1940s through the Warren years, the Supreme Court celebrated free expression and emphasized the role of schools in cultivating liberty. But the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts courts retreated from that vision, curtailing certain categories of student speech in the name of order and authority. Drawing on hundreds of lower court decisions, Ross shows how some... Читать дальше...

Do Landowners Have a Right to Challenge Federal Regulation of Their Property?

Cato Institute 

View the Full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/do-landowners-have-right-challenge-federal-regulation-their-property-preview-army-corps Four years ago, in Sackett v. EPA (2012), the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the EPA's effort to deny judicial review of its determination that a rural lot where an Idaho couple was building their home was a federal wetland. The Army Corps of Engineers makes tens of thousands of similar wetlands determinations each year under the Clean Water Act (CWA)... Читать дальше...



North Korean nuclear programme advances

Janes.com 

North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, based on the simultaneous development of a weaponisable nuclear device and ballistic missile delivery systems, appears to have advanced incrementally in early 2016. Following Pyongyang's claimed - although widely disputed - test of a 'H-bomb' (thermonuclear)

Transcript of RAW agent Kulbhushan’s confessional statement

Dawn 

This article was originally published on March 30th, 2016.

ISLAMABAD: The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) released on Tuesday a confessional video statement of Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav admitting to foment terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi.

He was arrested red-handed by law-enforcement agencies in the first week of the current month while infiltrating into Pakistan from the Saravan border area of Balochistan with Iran.

Following is the full text of his... Читать дальше...

The Gangs of Russia

Sean's Russia Blog 

Guest: Svetlana Stephenson is a Reader in Sociology at London Metropolitan University. Her research has involved studying informal and criminal social networks in Russia as well as perceptions of social justice and human rights in a comparative context. She is the author of Gangs of Russia, From the Streets to the Corridors of Power published...


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