The following is an excerpt from a piece I wrote this past week for the Guardian CiF, to read the full text, click the link below:
The media have recycled the same headlines following Dutch electio
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The following is an excerpt from a piece I wrote this past week for the Guardian CiF, to read the full text, click the link below:
The media have recycled the same headlines following Dutch electio
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Two Dutch municipalities decided last year that all their coffeeshops must be closed down. While in other cities, like nearby Breda, city governments have no intention of going back to the days of str
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People around the world admire, hate, or giggle at what they think they know about drug policies in the Netherlands. But how much do they really know? To get beyond the tall tales and the half-baked e
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This week several mainstream headlines quoted "experts" who pointed to signs of economic recovery on the horizon. I think they were referring to Europe, but if you search the news, you'll find other
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In many ways it is as if we never left. 2 years ago I sat at a picnic table under a tarp on the Polish-German border on the site of a former East German military base with a couple of thousand hackers
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I wrote a piece for the Guardian on the Dutch vote during last week's European Parliamentary elections. Here's an excerpt:
The headlines on Friday morning in Amsterdam looked not unlike those in the
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On line at the grocery store, I read the big sign in the window: Seeking new colleagues to join our team. Around the block at the café there's a small paper in the window that reads: seeking wait sta
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While my specialty is critical thinking, especially when it comes to global issues; sometimes nations do things that I both agree with and am impressed by.
The Netherlands is working on somethi
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