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There aren't many occassions that allow you to have a certain degree of optimism that it is possible to build a freer, more pluralist and just world.

It is increasingly common to find members of the Police with a cellphone or computer on hand, asking people for their national identification to "run a background check."

Reading the new papal encyclical Praise Be To You, it is clear that Francisco I seeks for climate change what Leon XIII acomplished in Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, the social issue at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Beyond if what lawmakers have approved in the balance of powers reform is good or bad, it teaches us a lesson on how not to do a constitutional reform in the future.

On June 26th, 1945, when the world had still not escaped the horrors of the Second World War, 50 countries ratified with optimism the so-called San Francisco Charter, which gave birth to the UN. Is there something to celebrate in the UN's 70 years?

In my op-ed last week I discussed the findings of research that compared the World Values Survey's results with homicide rates all over the world.

"Let me tell you about my problem with girls," said the Nobel laureate of medicine Tim Hunt in a world conference last week.

Beyond issues of justice, the balance of power reform has both good and bad in the other changes introduced by the state.

Democracy is government through public discussion. It aims to have society come to better informed and fair collective decisions through public debate on collective issues that is rational and transparent.