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wealth that they took in the 15 years leading up to the crisis was not hit at all, and I think that’s one of the fuels of this populist revolt that we’re seeing as the tea party. So I think there are many, many measures, particularly about getting the banks on better footing, mak...

…ned to release his tax returns, or even a summary of his returns, breaking a practice followed by every Republican and Democratic presidential candidate for more than four decades. Tax experts who reviewed the newly obtained documents for The New York Times said Mr. Trump’s tax...

…or deny their acts of repression often fail to sway either the public or the policy community in the United States. If democratic leaders have not mounted adequate responses to such repression, it is that the regime in question is benevolent and just. Authoritarian efforts to...

…Eigeartaigh, David McAllester, Eric Horvitz, and others) An informed public is important to the healthy functioning of democratic societies. We can expect potential forthcoming advances around the control of information feeds with applications in spreading propaganda, via spread...

…trap by proposing to end Medicare in 10 years. Will the special election this Tuesday in Jack Kemp's old seat produce a Democratic "Scott Brown Moment"? To read the show summary and listen, http://www.huffindtonpost.com/huff-radio/both- sides-now-1st-annive b 865325.html Best, Ma...

…y radical son of the six- ties, Kaptchuk was one of the founders of the Columbia Uni- versity chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1965, but the organization was soon dominated by a faction that be- came the Weather Under- ground. That was too radical even for Kaptchu...

…y twenty-one people who have held such a position. He has conducted research in Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Mauritius, Mexico, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy's "Top Global...

…hich constitute coercive, covert, or corrupt interference in American society and none of which actually undermines our democratic political institutions. Not distinguishing the legitimate from the illegitimate activities detracts from the credibility of the report. The cumulativ...

…e time ruthlessly favored property rights over labor, and most people (and all women) did not have the vote. In today’s democratic societies, it is not clear that the population will tolerate such a dramatic upheaval of society based on the promise that “eventually” things will g...

…ociated Industries, Inc. and National Association of Manufacturers. 104 See e.g. comments of COLLE and Coalition for a Democratic Workplace. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022290

…where people vote. Democracy is a messy all-or-nothing business. That’s why I love it. You can no more be a little bit democratic than a little bit pregnant. Yes, citizens go to the polls in Turkey, Lebanon and Israel and no dictator gets 99.3 percent of the vote. They are lands...

…d $30 million to Harvard and once flew former President Bill Clinton on his 727. Politicians including Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candidate for governor in New York, and Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, also a Democrat, have returned campaign contributions from him. But Mr....

time.com / Sally Hayden Outside a brown cement house in the eastern city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a government-employed psychologist is telling... HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022469

…ernet-connected, government-monitored surveillance cameras in every bar and bedroom. Yet that has not happened, because democratic governments (even the current American administration, with its flagrantly antidemocratic impulses) lack the will and the means to enforce such surve...

…ing up to World War I.” Rather than attempting to “organize Asia on the basis of containing China or creating a bloc of democratic states for an ideological crusade,” the United States would do better, Kissinger suggests, to work with China to build a new “Pacific Community.” Fou...