...nsurprisingly, find in such “initiatives” a low-cost opportunity for populist activism. No express collusion exists between these media players; there is no need for it because their interests are naturally aligned. In March 2012, the Kony 2012 video campaign quickly became the most viral phenomenon in the history of social media. The video, produced by a little-known California charity, Invisible Children, caused a sudden spark of interest in p...
The December 2012 issue has arrived! Make sure to read the seven new articles and a CPR briefing on potential immigration reform. World: Cover: Bribe and Punishment Legal Strides and Policy Development in Brazil by Bruno Mendes Gimme, Gimme More Shedding Light on African Grab Deals by Sarina Bhandari Sanctioning Progress The Consequences of Misguided International Pressure on Iran by Joshua Fattal Egypt’s Party Scene With an Eye to the Futu...
2012, by all accounts, will be a year for the history books. Power transitions will occur in the world’s two largest economies. London will host the Olympics. The steady shift in the distribution of world influence away from traditional Western-heavy institutions and toward new multilateral groupings will continue, while the rankings of the world’s largest economies remain in a constant state of flux (due to the failure of the European experime...
by Eszter Offertaler On March 29, 2012, at 12:52 p.m., Logan Smith, a 25 year-old college graduate, reported on his personal blog that the IRS was to federally indict South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley for tax evasion. Piggybacking on the heightened media attention that surrounded the Republican vice-presidential hopeful, Smith engineered a blog post that would generate controversy, increase web hits, and spread virally. He accomplished all th...
...pics, and its recent demonstration of due process for those accused of corruption, Brazil has demonstrated a willingness to spur and sustain long-term development, as Bruno Rigonatti Mendes demonstrates in our cover story. As 2012 draws to a close, my hope for 2013 and the distant future is that lawmakers in the United States try to do the same by fixing our broken immigration system. In this issue’s briefing, we outline a number of the proposals...
With Rick Santorum’s departure, the 2012 U.S. presidential race has finally come down to Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, the former comes across as a strong leader, out-polling Obama 47 percent to 43 percent on economic issues. But the president seems to be a much more likable candidate, beating Romney with an 81 percent likability rating to the latter’s 63 percent. President Obama finds enthusiastic...
The outcome of the 2012 presidential election could now be resting in the hands of nine unelected Supreme Court justices as they consider the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. The biggest matter at hand for the Court concerns the individual health insurance mandate, which forms the core of the law. All of its other facets, including allowing children to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until a...
Picture courtesy of Politico March, previously forecast as the month that would decide the Republican presidential nomination (read: the month that Romney would clinch it), has instead reduced the race to an excruciating slog to 1144, the number of delegates that a candidate must secure to receive the nomination. At the time of this writing, Romney leads with 484, followed by Santorum with 239, Gingrich with 136, and Paul with 69; there are 135...
In the 2012 election, an overwhelming majority of first-generation Americans voted in favor of Democratic candidates over Republican ones, bringing the issue of immigration reform to the forefront of governance. With 71 percent of Latinos having voted for President Barack Obama, many Republican politicians, including Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, both from Florida, have voiced concerns that their party needs to change its stance on immigration po...
President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign constantly begs the American people to give Obama another chance to lead the nation, but when deciding who to vote for in November, remember what Obama did (and didn’t do) with his first chance. Progressives expected the Obama administration to give them their shining moment of glory, and indeed he certainly entered office with plenty of support from the mainstream, as well. Obama, backed by large D...
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