Political Science
mobi, epub |eng | 1971-11-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction October 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Jonathan Alter

MOST VOTERS IN 2012 knew nothing of George Romney’s centrist record, but they suspected that his son might govern as a moderate, as he had in Massachusetts. Romney played on ...
( Category: History & Theory October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-07 | Author:Susan Jacoby

If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

13 Republican Reforms Despite all the increased violence and rioting, despite all the anxiety over America’s climate, despite all the hand-wringing over so much licentiousness spreading everywhere, by the early ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-05 | Author:Bill Maher

Hitting below the Beltway NEW RULE You can’t be a Washington outsider if you’re already the president. Hearing President Bush constantly complain about “the politicians” and the “Washington mind-set” and ...
( Category: Political September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Rick Perlstein

Goldwater’s official campaign headquarters was on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. To run it, the Arizona Mafia decided they needed a big name. The particular name they chose, alas, belonged ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Schweizer, Peter [Schweizer, Peter]

USING THE LEGAL SYSTEM TO EXTORT35 Source: www.sec.gov/spotlight/fcpa/fcpa-cases.shtml and http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/cases/2013.html. brags on its website that “Covington lawyers have a unique command of anti-corruption laws, in part due to our role ...
( Category: Legislative Branch September 29,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Corey Robin

8 Remembrance of Empires Past Busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels. —Henry IV, Part 2 In 2000, I spent the better part of a late summer interviewing William F. Buckley ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-01-19 | Author:Paine, Thomas & Mark Philp [Paine, Thomas]

Having thus spoken of constitutions generally, as things distinct from actual governments, let us proceed to consider the parts of which a constitution is composed. Opinions differ more on this ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Dupré, Ben [Dupré, Ben]

The false face of Islam Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda – however nebulous an entity it is ...
( Category: General September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Adam Jones

In terms of absolute numbers of prisoners, the Gulag system peaked in the post-World War II era. As part of the ‘destalinization’ process following the dictator’s death, it was rapidly ...
( Category: African September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-07 | Author:Kinna, Ruth [Kinna, Ruth]

Instead of looking to anthropology to find evidence of anarchy, some anarchists have preferred to investigate the possibilities of anarchist organization through the lens of utopianism. Utopian traditions of theorizing ...
( Category: Reference September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan [Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan]

NULLIFICATION MAKES ITS DEBUT Asserting this dire conclusion, the Kentucky legislature then went on to announce that “a nullification” doctrine was the “rightful remedy.” Reaffirming its own “principles” of 1798, ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kessler, Ronald [Kessler, Ronald]

18 Keystone Cops WHEN PEOPLE PICTURE THE OLD CIA, THEY ARE MOST likely thinking of the Office of Security. It was the CIA’s Office of Security, starting in 1967, that ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Schanzer

12 Quashing Critical Media and Protesters While the PA was never a full-fledged democracy, one could argue that the Palestinians enjoyed more freedoms under the PA than the majority of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 22,2014 )