A blog about events and people in Xinjiang and Northwest

"That liberty which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone." ... though it is vital to the survival of democracy. As twenty-three years of conservative ... have now shown millions of un- and underemployed Americans, what's

Politics is all about branding. And brands are not about issues or details ... about identity. When progressives and Democrats think of how Bush voters ... "moral values"; privatization and deregulation; "free trade"; lower

About OSI and the Soros Foundations Network The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape ... democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.

... Communicating our American Values and Vision is George Lakoff and the ... the progressive vision, for the morals and principles that apply across issue areas, and for all the essentials of framing.

... what is variously called e-government and e-democracy for those who are new to ... relationsihps between government and citizens being brokered by the new ... basic standards for e-participation and e-consultation if they are to reach

... constructive engagement between China and other countries. Our core, English ... on environment, social development and civil society in China to a readership of decision and opinion makers in international

... It is also necessarily a book about democracy itself. Finally it is about why Americans have far less democracy than they like to think and what ... that the economic premises of their society were working against them. These

... retail merchandising corporations and the economic and environmental ... owned businesses, community character, and workers. Past efforts to control the ... resulted in increased environmental and land-use regulation, but there has