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Democracy

Dem-o-krat-yah now!

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May 2023, no. 453
David N. Myers on the erosion of democracy in Israel

The recent pause announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing a controversial legislative package through the Knesset marks a temporary respite from a concerted plan to challenge and overturn the system of government that has been in place since the state of Israel was created in 1948.

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Drugs and Democracy: In search of new directions by editors Gregory Stokes, Peter Chalk, and Karen Gillen

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June 2001, no. 231
Desmond Manderson reviews 'Drugs and Democracy: In Search of New Directions' edited by Gregory Stokes, Peter Chalk, and Karen Gillen

The failure of the current system of drug prohibition was evident right from the start. Quong Tart, tea importer, socialite, lacrosse champion, and indefatigable anti-opium campaigner, insisted that banning its import would ‘stamp out the evil within twelve months’. That was in 1894.

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