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This Animals Coloring Book is the ideal way to learn about animals and have fun coloring. The best part it is free to download.

With the installation of Robert Kindler, a favourite of right-wing-radical professor Jörg Baberowski, a fundamental reorientation of the Institute for East European Studies is in train, away from studying the crimes of the Nazi regime and Polish-Jewish history.

Democracy implies first of all civic equality. In a democracy, all citizens are subject to the same laws and are distinguished from one another only by their merit. Poverty should therefore not prevent anyone from taking part in the life of the city. The aim is not to ensure the same resources for all citizens but to guarantee the equality of all before the law through the impartiality of justice. This is what we call the rule of law.

Populism movements that pit ordinary people against established elites are sabotaging political institutions and undermining democracies around the globe, Samuel Issacharoff argues in his new book, Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty.