United States
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Andrew Burt

In February of 1950, most Americans didn’t know much about Senator Joseph McCarthy. Born to an Irish-American family in northeastern Wisconsin’s Outagamie County, the forty-one-year-old senator had risen from an ...
( Category: History & Theory April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabe Klein

Components of the Vision Zero safety initiative in Chicago, including (a) mannequins, (b) stickers, and (c) ads (a, c: Michelle Stenzel, Bike Walk Lincoln Park; b: Metropolitan Planning Council) What ...
( Category: Local April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sehat

CHAPTER SIX The Montage Effect In the sweltering August of 1963, Washington, D.C., braced for an epic riot. Plans were for hundreds of thousands of black protesters to descend on ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Douglas MacKinnon

* * * After reading this powerful essay from William Rawle, two certainties become abundantly clear: The first—all things being equal, his overriding hope was that as long as the ...
( Category: National April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:David Rubin [Rubin, David]

A Shoe For Israel, A Message for the Islamic World: President Obama speaks to Prime Minister Netanyahu in this White House released photo, as heavy pressure is applied on Israel ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Higgs

CULTIVATING AND PRUNING THE FIRST NEW DEAL: THE SUPREME COURT Legislate as it might, the 73rd Congress still had to get its laws past the courts. For several years the ...
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Ben Shapiro

THE ELECTION OF 1960 pitted one of America’s wittiest presidential candidates, John F. Kennedy, against one of its gloomiest, Richard M. Nixon. JFK’s sparkling repartee contrasted sharply with Nixon’s dogged ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Wessel, David [Wessel, David]

Why such a declining share? In part, because Congress has offered corporations all sorts of tax breaks. And, in part, because businesses have exploited loopholes or shifted profits overseas or ...
( Category: Economic Conditions April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Michael J Thompson

Now, as individuals differ greatly from each other, in intelligence, sagacity, energy, perseverance, skill, habits of industry and economy, physical power, position and opportunity—the necessary effect of leaving all free ...
( Category: National April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Michael Barber

DILIGENCE After standards comes diligence. Chambers Dictionary defines ‘diligent’ as ‘steady and earnest in application’ and ‘diligence’ as ‘steady application; industriousness’. Diligence matters because however the standards are set, the ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Sabato, Larry J. [Sabato, Larry J.]

Nixon’s memory was selective, though. His administration extensively used the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and the CIA to serve its political needs just as his predecessors had. The age ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-26 | Author:Mark Gerzon

From Dividing to Uniting America 1. Civic disengagement 1. Dynamic citizen engagement 2. Divided state legislatures 2. Collaborative state legislatures 3. Partisan election officials 3. Trustworthy elections 4. Endless campaigns ...
( Category: Democracy March 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Robert Dallek

Kennedy did not dispute the failure to do big things at home. But for the time being, he felt that foreign dangers still had to command his primary attention. And ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 25,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:David Marr

We can’t stop people drinking, we can’t stop people gambling, we can’t stop people having substance problems, we can’t stop people from making mistakes … Under Abbott, the unemployed had ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Dean Reuter

Congress could, of course, have restricted the jurisdictional reach of the Clean Water Act by providing a narrow definition to the term “waters of the United States” so that it ...
( Category: National March 18,2016 )