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… in bonuses in 2008 amid a serious financial crisis and a $245 billion government bailout. In 2008, more than 3 million American homes went into foreclosure because of mortgage blunders those same executives helped facilitate. Citigroup proposed to buy a $50-million corporate jet...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 1. Andrew E. Kramer, “New Russian History: Yes, People Died, but ...," New York Times, August 15, 2007, http://www.nytimes. com/2007/08/15/world/europe/15iht-letter.1.7122937.html. 2. “The Rewritin...

…be extremely impressed by. Can you tell for the people here who aren’t within the Anglosphere and they might not follow American domestic politics at the moment — there seems to bea substantial sea change going on at the moment in Middle America. And the leader of the majority pa...

…with then member of Knesset Yossi Beilin, secret talks between him and local Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. These talks, which were facilitated by Fafo and the Foreign Ministry of Norway, reached a dead end later that year. The Norw...

…uded as an Internet hero. He could be beamed into dozens of ACLU meetings where he would be celebrated as a defender of American liberty. He could describe to sympathetic audiences in Germany, Norway and France the unfairness of the American legal system, asserting that it was de...

… television network. CCTV also expanded its offerings in the United States, growing its bureau in Washington and hiring American reporters too. By 2012, CCTV, recently renamed the China Global Television Network (CGTN), was broadcasting in seven languages. Its programs for Ameri...

…be extremely impressed by. Can you tell for the people here who aren’t within the Anglosphere and they might not follow American domestic politics at the moment — there seems to bea substantial sea change going on at the moment in Middle America. And the leader of the majority pa...

…o historians of the Supreme Court, the 1963-64 term was among the most significant and innovative in the history of the American judiciary, and Justice Goldberg was at the center of the action. He assigned me to draft the famous Escobedo opinion, which changed the law of confessi...

…seen “as a joke,” but is now being understood “as a very serious issue”: With Mr. Dershowitz as the lead lawyer and the American Civil Liberties Union and other prominent groups and individual prepared to help, Mr. Reems has some of the country’s most impressive legal talent work...

…as elated by the Justice’s proposed agenda. When Goldberg sat down with Dershowitz in the summer of 1963, not even the American Civil Liberties Union believed that capital punishment posed a potential violation of constitutional rights. Dershowitz made this point to Goldberg. “A...

…I to nineteenth century federal efforts to combat Ku Klux Klan terrorism of voters); William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice 99-157 (2011) (documenting the expansion of federal role in law enforcement and prosecution in the late nineteenth century). 43° See...

…N.C. Const. art. 4, § 29 (1868); Va. Const. art. 6,§§6, 8, 30 (1851). 82 See Jacoby, supra note 70, at 6 (arguing that American prosecutors evolved from weak to strong figures largely because they were popularly elected and tied to local government organization). Public and priv...

…xively blamed when under pressure. More recently, the tar- get of attack is a group of prodemocracy foundations, mostly American, that encourage political reform through nonviolent methods. According to the de- nunciations of officials from Russia, China, Venezuela, and other rep...

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…uld not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American people. Today’s interdependent global economy requires that trade policy be developed at the national and state level. Many states have recognized the...