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May 15, 2023
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When Milton Friedman Met Pinochet
Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.
October 6, 2017
Kylie Noble
Irish Politicians Don’t Want to Legalize Abortion—But the People Do
Ireland's abortion ban has been in place for decades. But a new experiment in direct democracy might change that.
September 24, 2014
Elaine Teng
Spain Is Learning All the Wrong Lessons from Scotland's Referendum
September 19, 2014
Ariel Dorfman
What Robert Burns Would Have Made of Scottish Independence
Robert Burns helped to forge a pride of place that has become a reservoir of national identity
May 12, 2014
Linda Kinstler
No One Knows What the Referendums in Eastern Ukraine Decided
May 7, 2014
Julia Ioffe
I'll Believe Putin is "De-Escalating" in Ukraine When I See It
And I doubt he even can

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