Results for “American Carnage”

…erprise with proper management.” The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, sefior, how long will all this take?” To which the American replied, “15-20 years. 25 tops.” “But what then, sefior?” The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right, you would anno...

…rful idea that would exist independently of whether the U.S. is hegemonic or not. I’m not as scared of a world without American hegemony as some people are. We went through the whole Cold War period in which the U.S. was one of two superpowers. A return to a more multi-polar wor...

… appointments in academe, producing popular books and magazine writing consumed by the chattering classes, and advising American presidents and foreign leaders directly. He combines expertise and influence with breadth: He’s worked on questions as imperial as American grand strat...

… year ago, almost certainly too ambitious a vision. That vision was to produce the highest quality educational video on American poetry, creating a body of humanities content capable of reaching a broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and...

…other hand, the AFL-CIO and several other commenters t*° support electronic as well as physical posting; the Center for American Progress Action Fund, among others, points out that electronic communications at work are standard now. After carefully considering these comments, th...

…ehavior towards her. Incident 4: • You met a student from another university, an atheist activist, in March 2008 at the American Atheists Convention in Minneapolis. She wanted to expand the atheist group she ran at the midwestern university she was attending, and hoped to convinc...

…ories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was charged too with the fear of communist expansion, not an unreasonable worry for Americans who had just fought a world war against two other, dangerously totalitarian forces. A cold fear lingered in the minds of many citizens and military pl...

…board the Pentagon jet on his last foreign trip as secretary of defense, Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon--and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on the global stage, he says. "T've spent my entire adult life with the U...

…onal mathematics, and from social determinants of health to the size of Shakespeare’s vocabulary. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. The question of how we come to know—or to claim that we...

…overty line. The racial makeup of the town is 96.00% White (93.8% were Non-Hispanic White,) [5] 2.57% Black or African American, 0.53% Asian, 0.04% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. 2.56% of the population are Hisp...

…the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) Business Advisory Council. Scher serves on the Board of Trustees of American University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his B.A. from American University in 1983 and his J.D. from AU's Washington...

…t their distance from the leathernecks. Had they spoken to the marines, the Blackwater team might have learned that the Americans were already in the midst of a major offensive meant to assert control over the increasingly restive city, where elements of the radical Islamist move...

…ttee on March 12, 2013. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) of the Committee asked the spy master if the NSA collected data on Americans. Clapper answered that the NSA did not knowingly “collect any type of data” on millions of Americans. Clapper’s answer was clearly untrue. However, it...

… I respond, 30 seconds, to what I perceive to have been a personal attack? First of all, whenever I hear the word "real Americans," that sounds to me like a codeword for racism -- a code word for bigotry, a codeword -- REP. BARR: That's absurd, professor, you ought to be ashamed...

…the short-run. But we’ve got to start somewhere. SHAFFER: Is the spread of liberal democracy dependent upon persisting American hegemony? FUKUYAMA: It’s been helpful. The U.S. obviously plays a big role in maintaining a liberal, open world order, through its alliances and the i...