United States
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Smyth

* * * Charlton Heston resigned from the NRA in 2003 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He died at the age of eighty-four in the spring of 2008. “It’s ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations April 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Matt Jones

Whitley County Hanging at Glen’s Restaurant I am going to tell you folks a secret at this point in the trip: we are currently on county 69 of 120, and ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Jonathan Karl [Karl, Jonathan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN TWO DOOR SLAMS By the summer of 2017, covering the Trump Show had become something of a family affair. My older daughter, Emily, was working for CNN as ...
( Category: Political Science March 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-29 | Author:James Bamford [Bamford, James]

Named on March 10, 1981, to fill Inman's chair at NSA was his old friend Lincoln D. Faurer, a fifty-three-year-old Air Force lieutenant general with gray hair and a buzz ...
( Category: National March 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg [Davidson, James Dale & Rees-Mogg, William]

I. Inflation had another lure during the industrial period when prices and wages were downwardly inflexible. Modest inflation increased output by reducing real wages and prices. CHAPTER 8 THE END ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Homan & Jeffrey S. Lantis

Traditional Legislative Strategies The Assad regime’s Sarin nerve gas attack against rebel-held areas in August 2013 ignited an intense debate over possible responses, both at home and abroad. President Obama ...
( Category: Political Science March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Gary C. Jacobson & Jamie L. Carson [Jacobson, Gary C.]

Source: ANES. PARTISANSHIP AND INCUMBENCY Changes in the incidence of party-line voting contributed directly to the rise and subsequent decline in the congressional incumbency advantage discussed in chapter 3. Challengers’ ...
( Category: Elections March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:LaRosa, Michael,Mora, Frank O. & Frank O. Mora [LaRosa, Michael J. & Mora, Frank O.]

V Conflicting Aims in U.S.–Latin American Relations The Late 20th Century Well before the Cuban Revolution, U.S. policy documents and actions demonstrated that the United States placed Latin America within ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-18 | Author:Donald F. Kettl

There are significant differences among the states in environmental performance, but there have also been big shifts among the states over time. Since 2000, some states, led by New Jersey, ...
( Category: Constitutions March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cahn, Matthew; Shafie, David; Schockman, H. Eric

* * * Source: Gary Delsohn and Margaret Talev, “Travels with Arnold”, American Journalism Review, February/March 2005. * * * SUMMARY * * * This chapter has explored the role ...
( Category: State March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Amy Wilentz

Walking through the rooms downstairs with Lynda Resnick is like taking a tour of pre-Revolutionary France. As Lynda wrote in her vanity essay, the house “is topped off on all ...
( Category: Local March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mitt Romney

On to Medicaid. When I was governor of Massachusetts, the Bush administration’s then secretary of health and human services Tommy Thompson proposed a straightforward and uncomplicated plan to fix the ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas, G. Scott; [G. Scott Thomas]

Alfred Landon wouldn’t have been taken seriously as a presidential candidate under normal circumstances. But he did not run in normal times. Landon was elected governor of Kansas by the ...
( Category: Political Science March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Robert B. Reich [Reich, Robert B.]

CHAPTER 9 The Power Shift A SECOND SYSTEMIC CHANGE followed from the first. The move from stakeholder to shareholder capitalism altered the balance of power between corporations and workers. Shareholder ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Simeon Nichter [Nichter, Simeon]

5.6SUMMARY Substantial vulnerability spurs many citizens to buttress the stability of their ongoing exchange relationships with politicians. This chapter examined how declared support enables many Brazilians to mitigate a key ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2020 )