The way forward for Bobi Wine in post-Besigye Opposition
Sunday February 21 2021
This file photo shows National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi (left) and former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr Kizza Besigye (right) at an event. FILE PHOTO
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If the Supreme Court upholds president Museveni’s re-election, President Museveni will in May embark on a sixth term, extending his rule to 40 years as Mr Robert Kyagulanyi and his National Unity Platform (NUP), the current face of the Opposition, ponder the next move, the exact spot Dr Kizza Besigye has been boxed in four times.
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In the United States, which often promotes itself as the global gold standard of democracy, Eliot Engel, the Democrat House Representative for Bronx and lower Westchester County (New York City) vacated office early January, having lost the seat to a progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman, an African-American former elementary school principal.
Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era
For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation s newly freed Black population into society.
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Recently freed African Americans receive rations. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images
For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation s newly freed Black population into society.
Between 1863 and 1877, the U.S. government undertook the task of integrating nearly four million formerly enslaved people into society after the Civil War bitterly divided the country over the issue of slavery. A white slaveholding south that had built its economy and culture on slave labor was now forced by its defeat in a war that claimed 620,000 lives to change its economic, political and social relations with African Americans.
January 26, 2021
PULLMAN, Wash. – Four of the nation’s leading experts on constitutional democracy will discuss current crises in the U.S. and abroad in a series of free, online events beginning Wednesday, Feb. 16.
The noon-hour events are hosted by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public and Public Service at Washington State University, whose mission is to educate the public about American government and democratic institutions, encourage public service and to promote scholarly research on public policy and political institutions.
“In recent years hyper-partisanship and polarization has severely tested America’s constitutional structures and democratic norms. In the past year alone, we witnessed two impeachments of a sitting president and an insurrection that desecrated the nation’s Capitol,” said Cornell Clayton, C.O. Johnson distinguished professor of political science and director of the Foley Institute. “We are living in a time of almost unparalleled threat
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In 1964, Harper’s Magazine published an essay by Richard Hofstadter entitled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”. Hofstadter’s essay originally delivered as a lecture at Oxford the previous year appeared against the backdrop of Barry Goldwater’s failed bid to win the US presidency as the Republican Party candidate. Hofstadter wrote that the Goldwater movement, which included the extreme-right John Birch Society, demonstrated “…how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority”.
Hofstadter is regarded by many as the most influential American historian of his day, and this essay shows why. Written more than a half-century ago, its insights are as penetrating today as they were then. “I call it the paranoid style,” he wrote, “… simply because no other word adequately evokes the qualities of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind”. Those wor
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