Politics & Government
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Cleary

The fund mechanism entails that money will only be allocated to the fund when there is a budget surplus. This reflects an important point: running a budget surplus is the ...
( Category: Oil & Energy September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Roy, Arundhati; [Roy, Arundhati]

On the morning of the 13th of December 2000, I learned that people from the Narmada valley had gathered outside the gates of the Supreme Court. When I arrived at ...
( Category: Canadian September 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Maureen Dowd

February 21, 2007 Obama’s Big Screen Test Hillary is not David Geffen’s dreamgirl. “Whoever is the nominee is going to win, so the stakes are very high,” says Mr. Geffen, ...
( Category: Elections September 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Lynch, Richard A.; [Lynch, Richard A.]

4 Freedom’s Critique: The Trajectories of a Foucauldian Ethics Robert Nye observes about Foucault’s history of sexuality that “his scholarly hermeneutic made it possible for him to be both the ...
( Category: History & Theory September 19,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Simanowski, Roberto;

13 DIGITAL HUMANITIES IF in former times it was possible that an unmeasured hill could insult rationality, it is now rationality that—statistically instrumentalized—insults itself. The excesses in measurement of the ...
( Category: Democracy September 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Andrey Kurkov [Kurkov, Andrey]

Saturday 1 March First day of spring, but no one is thinking about that. We arrived in Lazarevka last night. On our way out of Kiev, the central traffic police ...
( Category: Human Rights September 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:James D. Gwartney & Richard L. Stroup & Dwight R. Lee & Tawni Hunt Ferrarini [Gwartney, James D.]

Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1982, Table 5; and U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Poverty Tables—Families, www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov4.xls. No doubt, the proponents of the ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Bill Kauffman

NOTES 1. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (New York: McGraw Hill, 1968), p. 131. 2. Edward Abbey, “Immigration and Liberal Taboos,” in One Life at a Time, Please (New York: Holt, ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Moran

Chapter 5 The Snepp Problem I. The PRB I have sacrificed everything since I started writing the book. I have no friends now. I have no honor. I have no ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Conason

* * * The first time Bill Clinton mentioned CGI in a public forum had been almost nine months earlier, when he took the World Economic Forum stage in Davos ...
( Category: General September 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Newton [David E. Newton]

References Enoch, M. A., and D. Goldman. 2001. “The Genetics of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.” Current Psychiatry Reports. 3: 144–151. Gerevich, J., E. Bácskai, and Z. Danics. 2005. “A Case ...
( Category: Reference September 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Gareth Dale

KARL’S CHOICE, ILONA’S TRIAL Polanyi had written The Great Transformation in the United States, and the prospect of developing his research program in that country was enticing. A particularly appropriate ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Gretchen Bakke [Bakke, Gretchen]

NOTABLE PASSINGS In 2014 the people of Boulder voted to municipalize their electrical infrastructure. They simply bought the wires and all the rest from Xcel and bade their digging, meddling, ...
( Category: Electricity September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Rubenstein

CHAPTER SIX A CHANCE FOR PEACE? American officials had long assumed that Stalin’s death would expose the fragility of his regime. As far back as February 1946, George Kennan advised ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Satter

5 A System Under Threat The system created under Putin was oppressive but not overbearing. It demanded participation in or tolerance for corruption, but this was seen by many Russians ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union September 11,2016 )