...Rami G. Khouri Commentator Rami G. Khouri argues that the fundamental problem in the Arab world is dysfunctional statehood. Arab citizens remain estranged from their governments, which rely not on the consent of their people for legitimacy but on foreign countries or oil income to remain in power...

.... National headlines outlined plans for integrating previously whites-only spaces—especially private schools, beaches, and recreational facilities—and providing employment and educational opportunities to Cuba’s most marginalized citizens. These changes created unprecedented social opportunities for blacks...

...Ismail Einashe Britain’s “minimum income requirement” restricts citizens and legal residents who earn less than £18,600 ($24,000) from bringing their spouses from outside Europe to live with them. Journalist Ismail Einashe looks at the consequences of this threshold, advanced by now-Prime Minister...

.... But in such a poorly regulated environment, “clean” water is often dirty, putting millions at risk of falling ill. She puts forward a number of possible plans, including pani panchayats , or citizen-led water councils inspired by institutions in rural India. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India...

...Masha Gessen Having spent over two decades analyzing Russia's slide into dictatorship, journalist Masha Gessen is now terrified of the damage President Donald Trump could do to democracy in the U.S. World Policy Journal spoke with Gessen about Putin, the media, and what citizens can do to protect...

...Sarah El Sirgany Egypt handed over two uninhabited islands to Saudi Arabia, sparking the largest mass protests in Cairo since 2014. Both governments say they want to maintain close ties, according to journalist Sarah El Sirgany, but conflicting expectations, dissatisfied citizens, and domestic...

... crowdfunding campaign to prosecute the banker Rodrigo Rato for his role in Spain’s economic crisis. Still, the establishment continued to disregard the growing urban revolt. Everything changed in May 2015, when city elections were turned upside down by an unprecedented political format: citizen-led...

... information held by governments needs to see the light of day. Personnel files of government employees, tax records of its citizens, sensitive internal agency memoranda, measures to control crime, and those to advance diplomacy and national defense should not be available to the media or the public. The devil...

... citizenship, triate populations recognize that they must absentee balloting, and even homeland do better in convincing newcomers to par­ legislative seats for their citizens settled ticipate more fully in their adopted commu­ abroad. nities. In a trend that began...

... citizens? It would be difficult to argue that it did not, particularly when the overarching threat that those policies were designed to counter was for the majority of my intelligence career thermonuclear obliteration. Why today are we apparently so uncertain about a government’s need for secrecy? Why...

... expected such that suggests that fairness evaluations (pop­ rapid change when communism imploded a ular assessments of the fairness of political dozen years ago. and economic systems) are a more powerful Despite these successes, citizens of the determinant of support...

... to connect online databases while keeping them securely separate. The language of technology is packed with automobile metaphors (“traffic,” “information superhighway”), but X-Road really is a public infrastructure. It is both an information-management system and a way of protecting data. When a citizen uses...

....” Conway’s fabricated “Bowling Green Massacre” was quickly debunked and widely mocked. Though conspiracy theories and disinformation have now become a regular part of U.S. discourse—a practice encouraged and enabled by the Trump regime—U.S. citizens still have the freedom to document what we see and to say...

... institutionalized ways for citizens to channel their disgruntlement. This wave of protest has once again raised awareness of the detachment between the country’s political elites and its citizens and how, in turn, this fuels protests. But how did Chile get here? In 1990, democracy was reinstituted in Chile...

..., or an Asian-Brit—just as one can be an African- or Italian-American. we have to harmonize our concept of open societies against the background of growing diversity . To embrace diversity properly, all long-term residents should be accepted as citizens. Individuals—regardless of faith, culture...

... a conversation with “Wazapéame ” (“Let’s connect on WhatsApp”). New forms of sociability and communication have also empowered citizens. Consumers expect banks, department stores, and public services to deliver customer service through social media. Protest movements, such as the environmental and student...

... to ability simply to say No. influence. On April 15, French citizens As an American, I had gone to Paris not somberly marked the one-hundredth day of only in search of my annual dose of “the the journalist’s ever more worrisome disap­ charm of spring” and a perhaps a kir sipped...