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The Decline and Fall of the American Republic - Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness.
U.S. Politics
As millions of barrels of oil began pouring into the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, Democratic lawmakers began asking the question: what was the proper amount of money that the company responsible for the spill should have to pay?
BP's Influence Peddling In Congress Bears Fruit Two Years After Gulf Spill
“The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera.
2 Years After the BP Oil Spill, Is the Gulf Ecosystem Collapsing? - Washington's Blog
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Lawrence v Texas: How Laws Against Sodomy Became Unconstitutional : The New Yorker
In 2003, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Lawrence v.
Mar 2nd 2012, 21:04 by R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC ASKED to explain his support for Rick Santorum in Michigan's primary, voter Sandy Munro said , "Now what we need is a strong political leader to do something to get us out of the moral slump that we’re in."
Morals: Our great moral decline | The Economist
Democracy?
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I take it the American news cycle is dominated by the artificial debate over raising the debt limit. It is a silly season story.
A Story More Important than Debt Limit Kabuki | Informed Comment
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's War
For a couple of centuries now, we have had to make due with Samuel Johnson’s famous phrase: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Is this how Newsweek hopes to get raised from the dead? — War in Context
Newsweek ’s current cover looks like a promotion for a Glenn Beck special: The War on Christians . No doubt the magazine’s editors thought they could get away with such a provocative headline because the byline lends it a token of authority. Were this declaration to come from Beck or anyone of his ilk, it would be dismissed by Newsweek ’s editors and many of its readers as conservative hysteria, but spouted by a celebrity former Muslim it suddenly demands serious attention.
Dearborn, Michigan, is the city in America with the highest proportion of Muslims.
Comment: The Attack on “All-American Muslim” : The New Yorker
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