Results for “Open Society Foundations”

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians up’ the agreement between British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that resulted in Germany's seizure of parts and eventually all of Czecho- slovakia. This clearly falsified the h...

search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for one in 1948 and today’s, has been brought about by ingeniously confining the program’s attention (or making it confine its attention) ever more narrowly to branches likely to lead...

…structure of the universe taken as a whole. Contemporary psychological research has created an intellectual space that opens the phenomenon of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021350

Freedom House chines, with their vast patronage networks, that pre- sided over American cities a half-century ago. Fidesz is apparently seeking to ensure that rival parties will never have access to the funds or influence necessary to unseat the incumbent government. ls Orban a...

Freedom House Authoritarians on Color Revolutions “In my opinion, everything that happened in Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began to discuss and think about Russias direc- tion.” —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi, April 2005 “...

"developed" , inverted, distorted, related, etc. the development stage take a long time. then there is a recapitlaltion of the whole. and its inter and intra actions. . african musci has lots of beats. and little development. -no accident, it mirrors their learning process. Inte...

even if the result is similar: Mass gatherings, control of some essential public space - a square, a stock exchange, a park. All organized, it appears, using completely ethereal techniques: Text messages, video postings, chat rooms. Similar movements appear around in the world. I...

…In almost every case, the researchers re- ported, there was essentially no difference between the placebo group and the openly untreated group. There were particular ex- ceptions in studies of pain, where there was a slight but measurable placebo effect. Since we are physiologica...

…an opinion she wrote. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story: One day in my office I opened an envelope and saw a notice that an Italian prosecutor in the city of Turin had initiated a criminal investigation against me. I had no idea what she co...

…. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao, and when Deng Xiaoping doubled down by opening up the country, the West applauded the change. The United States generously accepted Chinese products into its markets, allowed massive trade surpluses,...

…, by diplomats in the Chinese embassy and its six consulates as well as by CSSA branches. Although the United States is open to Chinese scholars studying American politics or history, China restricts access to American scholars and researchers seeking to study politically sensiti...

…ir algorithm? Is this AI doing things that we as humans believe are ethical? This human-in-the-loop approach is called “open algorithms;” you get to see what the Als take as input and what they decide using that input. If you see those two things, you’ll know whether they’ re doi...

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…hts, or to appeal trial court violations; to facilitate a remedy, courts may order that a guilty plea or sentence be re-opened. See Cal. Const. art. I, § 28(c)(1) (stating that a victim may enforce a list of enumerated rights in trial or appellate court "as a matter of right"); 1...

…ir most impressive and troubling achievement. Modern authoritarianism is particularly insidious in its exploitation of open societies. Russia and China have both taken advantage of democracies’ commitment to freedom of expression and delivered infusions of pro- paganda and disi...