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Articles on elections, political parties, campaigns, democracy, public rhetoric, and political power.
A catalog of Russia's major power brokers, how they fit into Putin's system, and how Ukraine's infrastructure strikes are pressuring the oil-linked side of Russia's elite economy.
Poland remains broadly anti-Russia and strategically supportive of Ukraine, but refugee fatigue, farmer anger, nationalist politics, and the Volhynia/UPA dispute are making that support more conditional.
Lee Atwater's 1981 interview explained how overt racial appeals became coded language in modern Republican politics, a lesson still visible in campaign rhetoric.
A sarcastic note about political fear after Obama was elected.
A closer look at Mitt Romney, FEMA, and the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, including how federal Olympic funding helped the Games and Romney's public turnaround story.
The acceptance of racism through silence while others spread racist propaganda is the #1 reason I wi
As I watch people debate about the elections...
So for something like the thirty fifth time, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to end the Healthcare Reform that is a cornerstone of the Obama presidency. Not only is the Democratically controlled Senate certain to vote this house bill down, the President is certain to veto it. This bill has a 0% chance of passing.It makes you wonder if there is...
A note on Ronald Reagan, free unions, and collective bargaining.
A look back at François Hollande's 2012 victory over Nicolas Sarkozy, France's rejection of austerity politics, and the later limits of that anti-austerity mandate.
our democracy, something that is so sacred that it cannot be bought and sold, but earned.
Oh, how they intertwine!
in theory such loopholes might sound great, but in practice it was unacceptable
Robert Reich challenges common conservative arguments about taxes, government, jobs, and Social Security.
There is a long laundry list
Before you bash unions, watch this
It was developed with the goal to reduce the number of seniors in poverty
This is an essay about democracy in America.
What happened to Representative Weiner
Why do the sex scandals keep happening