While attention is focused on one battleground state after another to see which political juggernauts will end up at the presidential ballot box, significant change is making its way through city and state legislatures -- change that has an opportunity to bring environmental and economic freedom, curb environmental tragedies, and provide justice to marginalized communities.
Nowadays, the people of Afghanistan ask themselves what is the point of having western troops and thousands of NGOs in the country when intellectual freedom is curbed but crime is flourishing.
The idea of our freedoms being curbed for our own protection is mirrored in the pervading rape culture of today, which puts the onus of women's safety strictly in their own hands.
Russia becomes more like China: crony capitalism is entrenched, the world view is authoritarian and bloody-minded, political freedoms are curbed.Russia successfully cajoles and bullies more Danegeld out of the IMF and the West; the economy ticks over; tariffs and a cheap rouble help domestic industry.
WHETHER your purpose is to promote freedom, to curb it, or to quibble about its definition, the reports of Freedom House, an American lobby group, make good reading.
Speaking to hundreds of Missouri Republicans attending the party's statewide Lincoln Days festivities last weekend, the one-time Missouri governor and senator said the president has been using security measures to protect freedoms, not to curb freedom.
They also want the sultan to sack some unpopular ministers, tackle corruption, give the press more freedom, and curb the influence of rich families close to government.They seem to have gained ground already on all fronts.
It sparked student protests with modest demands: greater freedom of speech, economic freedoms, curbs on corruption.
REFLECTIONS about how the Nixon Administration has curbed freedom of the press.
The last home secretary in John Major's Conservative government built prisons, toughened sentences and curbed freedoms.
