Stephen Kinzer
Columnist at The Boston Globe
Author and Journalist at Freelance
Author & journalist. Former NY Times foreign correspondent. Boston Globe columnist. Senior Fellow @WatsonInstitute for Intl. and Public Affairs @Brownuniversity
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4 days ago |
buckscountybeacon.com | Stephen Kinzer
After bombing Iran, President Donald Trump sent out one of his trademark all-capital-letters missives: “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” he wrote. Dream on. Trump has become the latest American president to plunge violently into the Middle East. His adventure, like most of the previous ones, will not achieve its goals. Instead it will further destabilize a region that has been suffering from outside intervention for the better part of a century.
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1 week ago |
infobae.com | Stephen Kinzer
Barrios de Chamorro, VioletaDeaths (Obituaries)NicaraguaLa PrensaChamorro, Pedro JoaquinSomoza Debayle, AnastasioSandinista National Liberation FrontOrtega, DanielAssassinations and Attempted AssassinationsPolitics and GovernmentElectionsEn 1990 se convirtió en la primera mujer en dirigir un país centroamericano. Su presidencia llegó después de que la nación se viera sumida en luchas políticas.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Stephen Kinzer
Nearly a century ago, the novelist George Orwell predicted a world dominated by three great powers. Small countries would have to submit to their will or risk devastation. That world did not emerge by 1984, as Orwell speculated it might. Now, however, the idea of splitting the world into three parts is back in fashion. President Trump is clearly more interested in dealing with Russia and China than with countries that have been traditional American allies, partners, or vassals.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Stephen Kinzer
Share Electing judges is a bad idea because it places popularity ahead of competence, experience, temperament, and other prized judicial qualities. Several countries, including the United States, allow election of some judges, but none has ever gone as far as Mexico. Mexican voters who go to the polls on June 1 will face a baffling array of ballots — more than half a dozen in some places.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Stephen Kinzer
Mexico is about to become the only country in the world where voters elect all judges. This “constitutional reform” was promoted as an anticorruption measure. It may have the opposite effect. Powerful economic interests and violent criminals, including drug lords, will now have easier access to the judiciary. The mass judicial election, scheduled for June 1, may be a turning point for Mexico. Rule of law has been weakening there for years. Electing judges threatens to weaken it further.
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https://t.co/mtOPf1lHeC Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies; Led Nicaragua After Civil War The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife. By Stephen Kinzer - New York Times
RT @GlobeOpinion: Speculation is mounting that Donald Trump will carve up control of the world with Russia and China. The appeal of that id…
RT @WatsonInstitute: Mexico’s dangerous constitutional ‘reform’ — In his @GlobeIdeas column, @stephenkinzer warns that Mexico’s plan to ele…
