Sean McElwee and Vijay Das have written an op-ed piece for Al Jazeera on how campaign financing is affecting the healthcare debate in the United States. The evidence is sobering: 0.1% of the American population contributed 30% of all the campaign funds in the 2012 presidential election cycle. The choices available to the American people on healthcare is overwhelmingly influenced by these contributions.
Daesh (Islamic State) adherents staged a terror attack in central Jakarta in Indonesia. The attack mirrors other such attacks–no evidence of centralized direction but rather attacks conducted by individuals inspired by Daesh propaganda. These types of attacks are not necessarily debilitating to a strong polity, but can weaken one that already lacks a degree of legitimacy.
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