Topic: Max Weber
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Africa Monitor
Mali, Shari'a, and the MediaReporting tends to portray Islamic Sharia law as barbaric. Guest blogger Alex Thurston writes that this tendency hinders a chance to understand countries like Mali in their complexity.
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Cover Story
Does America need a CEO in the Oval Office?Mitt Romney has been both vaunted and vilified for his business background. Here's how running a corporation really compares to running a country.
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Opinion: Cultural values, not dictators like Libya's Qaddafi, are chief obstacle to Arab progress
If Arabs want significantly greater freedom and economic development, they and their leaders must be fully committed to making it so.
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Opinion: President Obama is the only grown-up in Washington
Part of being a wise politician – and an adult – is compromising with your ideological rivals sometimes, especially when it's for the greater good of a divided government and recovering nation. Lately, it seems President Obama is the only grown-up in the room.
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Opinion: Democracy in Afghanistan is wishful thinking
In a feudal society that long picked leaders according to religion and tradition, the winner of today's election may be seen as illegitimate – simply because he is elected.
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Opinion: The evolution of the American dream
There's a sense of skepticism about it now.
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