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The Fragility of Voting Rights:  The 2020 U.S. Election

The Fragility of Voting Rights: The 2020 U.S. Election

On July 30, 2020, when the iconic civil rights leader Representative John Lewis was laid to rest, his final message to the American people was conveyed in a letter published in the New York Times. It included this advice and caution: “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.” Representative Lewis knew all too well of what he spoke.

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The Truth Shall Set You Free

A friend of mine, a mathematician, once bet me that, in an upcoming legal argument in a court of appeals, I could not somehow work in the term ‘verisimilitudinous’. As good as he was at math, my friend had a very imperfect understanding of legal argument or that, at appellate arguments

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UAE Israel Peace 2020

UAE Israel Peace 2020

Short presentation on the Israel-UAE Agreement. I argue that though the peace agreement is a byproduct of the desire to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict; nevertheless it was mainly driven by realpolitik far from the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and more specifically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Please forgive couple of editorial and unintended mistakes.

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ISRAEL AND THE UAE AND ISRAEL IDEOLOGICAL DEBATES

ISRAEL AND THE UAE AND ISRAEL IDEOLOGICAL DEBATES

The ISRAEL-UA -US dramatic announcement was actually not a well-kept secret, as speculation swirled for a long while, that ”something” was cooking up. Frequent not-so-secret visits of Head of Mossad in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, flights of Emirates Airlines to Tel Aviv, Israeli sportspeople competing in the UAE with Hatikva played there, and the Israeli flag raised.

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Less than Supreme, Less than Just, and Certainly Not Baseball

Less than Supreme, Less than Just, and Certainly Not Baseball

We watch the Supreme Court Justices as through a fog, a distant one at that, the figures moving in various directions irregularly and indistinctly, in a blur, occasionally adrift and astray but eventually finding their way back together, if not always in the place they started and sometimes not even realizing they have moved.

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American Masks and Lebanese Explosions

American Masks and Lebanese Explosions

What are we to make of the argument that any requirement or even pressure to wear masks in the face of the Covid pandemic, a measure we are assured will save thousands of lives, is an impermissible intrusion on personal liberty?

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Luis Fleischman, Ph.D.

co-President of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy & Policy Research and director for the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy

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The Intersection of National Security and the Florida Tech Ecosystem

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