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Presidential Debates Actually Used to Be Debates - Greg Ferenstein - Politics - The Atlantic
Nowadays, candidates get only a few seconds to parse complex issues. Can technology change the format and rescue us from sound-bite culture? Presidential debates were not always a string of ideological sound bites, largely devoid of policy specifics.
Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev: 'They Were Truly Idiots' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
In a SPIEGEL interview, Mikhail Gorbachev, 80, discusses the last days of the Soviet Union, his failure to resolve problems with the Communist Party and the ensuing bloodshed he says still troubles him today. He also accuses Vladimir Putin of pulling the country "back into the past."
Many people mistakenly think the photographs in Reverend Hillard's book comprise the entirety of photos of Revolutionary War veterans.
The Last Men of the Revolution
The World’s First Eyewitness? « Doug’s Darkworld
I’ve written about the first photograph of a human being, here is another old photograph that has historical significance in an obscure way. The fine gentleman above is Conrad Heyer, this picture was taken circa 1852.US officials led a far-reaching international campaign aimed at keeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide exiled in South Africa, rendering him a virtual prisoner there for the last seven years, according to secret US State Department cables. Despite reports from its own embassy that the post-quake situation in Haiti was “calm,” the United States launched a massive military operation that sparked an international backlash.
Wikileaks Haiti: The Aristide Files | The Nation
PRINCETON, NJ -- Ronald Reagan, the nation's 40 th president, became one of the nation's most revered public figures in recent years, a distinct turnabout from the more routinely average ratings he received while he served in office between 1981 and 1989. Reagan's job approval ratings in his first years in office were hurt by the bad economy, and the last years of his administration were marred by the negative fallout from what came to be known as the Iran-Contra affair. Nevertheless, Americans have more recently upgraded their retrospective approval of the job he did as president, and now routinely think of Reagan as one of the nation's more outstanding presidents.
Ronald Reagan From the People’s Perspective: A Gallup Poll Review
"Over the past few weeks, Washington has seemed dysfunctional," conservative columnist David Brooks opined recently in The New York Times .
How the US media marginalises dissent - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Given some of my key subjects, I can’t help but be interested in the “occupy” movement that, at the moment, has hundreds of protesters more or less living in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan for the past three weeks, and is apparently sparking similar protests in other cities. Until some 700 people were arrested over the weekend, you couldn’t find out much about this action via “mainstream media,” and much of the left media, such as it is, has been critical in some cases, and outright dismissive in others, regarding the movement’s evident formlessness and absence of specific goals. That absence was pretty much undeniable.
What we wish Obama had said - War Room - Salon.com
Ground Zero II | Carloslabs
The damage caused by a nuclear explosion is affected by a multitude of variables, and some of these require powerful super-computers to be simulated properly.
American Census by The Numbers -
The response to the 2010 Census was better than expected, with 74% of American households filling out and returning their census forms in the mail. But what does this mean for you and your community? After all, you may only know a census as a tool for researching your family tree.The Marching Chinese
Open IIS Help , which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup , Common Administrative Tasks , and About Custom Error Messages .An insider’s six-step plan to fix Congress A ngry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country. Just as they had done in 2008.
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans - Magazine - The Atlantic
Cinnamon Stillwell never thought she'd be the founder of a political organization.