The False Story of German Democracy

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Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use

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Who Really Needed Thileepan?

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Tamil political parties and politicians are seeking political advantage from Thileepan’s death. Last year, Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingham Chandrasekaran was prevented from entering the Thileepan memorial in Nallur on

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The Pinochet Question Returns

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Fifty years on, the bomb has stopped exploding, but the questions it left behind have not. The newly released records deepen the evidence surrounding Pinochet’s alleged role, while the most consequential findings

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Who Gets to Define Genocide?

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The debate over genocide in Sri Lanka has become increasingly entangled with politics, selective outrage and competing historical narratives. From British atrocities in Uva-Wellassa and LTTE massacres and expulsions to the unresolved

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Terror on Display

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Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickax under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s Museum of Death.” Three seconds pass before

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The JVP’s India Irony

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Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar served as First Secretary and Political Adviser at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1990. His role brought him into close

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