Spring 2023: A fuller manifestation of multi-party democracy is finally coming to Great Britain. Their electorate suffers from the absence of proportional representation (PR) just as we do in the United States—so, for many years, voters there had the idea of “only two significant choices” (Labour and Tories) as voters do here (Democrats and Republicans). […]

The Greens made history in Norway on September 9 when the people of Oslo elected the first ever Green Party Member of Parliament. With 97% of the votes counted, Rasmus Hansson, a former General Secretary of the World Wildlife Fund, has been declared elected in the country’s capital city. http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/09/10/small-parties-strive-for-influence/

“In the event that a determination of nonregulated status made pursuant to section 411 of Plant Protection Act is or has been invalidated or vacated, the secretary of agriculture shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law upon request by a farmer, grower, farm operator, or producer, immediately grant temporary permit(s) or temporary deregulation in part, […]

A Guide to Issue No. 26 (Fall 2012) A flood of books and blogs overwhelm us with detailed and stark expositions of crises and catastrophes. Their authors are not sensationalists. They are knowledgeable, often painstakingly methodical in their research, they care about the world and are deadly serious. But…where is the action from our institutions and […]