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An Emerging and Troubled Power: Ethiopia’s (Un)Distributed Renewable Grid

Ethiopia’s economic success has attracted widespread attention. Its GDP grew by 10.5 percent annually between 2006 and 2016, outpacing East Africa’s 5.4 percent growth...

When Politics Turn Deadly: The Case for Abolishing the Death Penalty

Though developed, non-authoritarian countries all over Western Europe and North America abandoned capital punishment years ago, the United States remains the only country in...

Politics in Los Pinos: The Next Quinazo

The political legitimacy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the ruling party of Mexico from 1929 to 2000, has declined since the 1980s. Economic...

Fighting Words: The Free Speech Fundamentalists

Two weekends ago, almost one million people descended on Washington, D.C. in one of the biggest protests in the capitol’s history. The target of the...

Politics in Los Pinos: Mexico’s 2018 Presidential Election

Mexico is preparing to elect its 58th president on July 1, 2018. But Mexico has not always been democratic. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)...

An Emerging and Troubled Power: Ethnopolitical Tribulations in Ethiopia

Qeeroo means “youth” in Oromo, the language of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group. It is also the preferred name of the young Oromo who have...