South African municipalities experience serious challenges in dealing with the interface between politicians and officials. Inappropriate political interference in administrative matters as well as strained relations between key political and administrative officials in the municipalities appear to be the order of the day. Oftentimes, the lack of a separation of powers between legislative and e...

The Committee for Scientific and Clinical Initiatives, with the approval of the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), has initiated Policy Conferences in the European Heart House. The purpose of such conferences is to provide a forum for debating matters of importance for the practice of cardiology. Subjects to be addressed are those where knowledge is still insufficient for the cr...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

In Is Originalism Our Law?, William Baude has made a good kind of argument in favor of originalism. Rather than contending that originalism is the only coherent theory for interpreting a constitution, he makes the more modest claim that it happens to be the way that American judges interpret our Constitution.1 If he is right—if originalism is our law—then judges deciding constitutional cases ou...

contemporary poets have enjoyed the effect of colour on man'sspirit and used them to expresstheir feelings about social and political matters. fadavatoghan as an influentialpalestinianpoet has used colours in her poems to reflect people's pains, wishes and hopes. woman'sfeeling and the delicate spirit of the poet on the one hand and political and social situationsdominated on pal...

This essay argues that work, and the socioeconomic class polarities it creates, plays a fundamental role in determining inequalities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. This is by means of uneven exposure to physical hazards and psychosocial risks in the workplace, as well as by inequalities in exclusion from the labour market and the absence of paid work. Furthermore, this essay sh...

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans to the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...