Politics & Government
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Dr. Nima Sanandaji [Sanandaji, Dr. Nima]

Similarly, Danish researcher Casper Hunnerup Dahl has concluded: “The high degree of distribution in the Danish welfare state does not merely reduce the concrete incentives that some Danes have for ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Maziar Bahari [Bahari, Maziar]

Chapter Twelve Bang. Bang. Bang. I hit my head hard against the faux marble wall, again and again, ignoring the pain that crept up my neck. I deserved the pain. ...
( Category: Middle East August 30,2017 )
epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-22 | Author:David Wise [Wise, David]

Chapter 15 ROYAL TOURIST IN JULY 1997 Robin Lee was annoyed when an outlet in the kitchen of her house in Manhattan Beach, California, suddenly stopped working. She unscrewed the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-30 | Author:Rebecca Solnit

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 30,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Farhad Manjoo [Manjoo, Farhad]

In his report, Mitofsky suggested a complex mechanism for his theory about why the poll had predicted a Kerry win—his idea that Kerry voters were slightly overrepresented among respondents. Exit ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 30,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Daniel Yergin

“GREAT SHEETS OF ICE” The Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz was also obsessed with glaciers—indeed so obsessed that he put aside his research on fossils of extinct fish in order to ...
( Category: Engineering August 30,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Means of Ascent

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well. For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 29,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Master of the Senate [Senate, Master of the]

Though these barons were called Democrats, they were unenthusiastic about the leading Democratic presidential contenders—Stevenson, Harriman, and Kefauver, all liberals—and may have preferred another four years with the safely moderate ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-29 | Author:Steven Hiatt

Notes 1. Dick Cheney, speech at the Institute of Petroleum Autumn Lunch, London, November 15, 1999. 2. Carola Hoyos, “Big Players Anticipate Iraq’s Return to Fold,” Financial Times, February 20, ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1934-08-29 | Author:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck [van den Bruck, Arthur Moeller]

2 When the masses advanced in 1918 their movement came from the depths. They called their movement a proletarian one. They spoke of a socialist revolution. They invoked the name ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Bribery,” whether legal or not. Part of a “system,” as Abramoff puts it, that “needs to be changed.” “[N]ot the current cast of characters running the system,”35 but the system. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 29,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Zbigniew Brzeziński [Brzeziński, Zbigniew]

( Category: Politics & Government August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Matthew Yglesias [Yglesias, Matthew]

The New Rentiers The classical economists, focused as they were on a primarily agricultural economy, would not be surprised to hear about people moving toward lower incomes. That’s because for ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 29,2017 )