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I n 200 6 , D on al d Trump made plans to purchase the Menie Estate, near Aberdeen, Scotland, aiming to convert the dunes and grassland into a luxury golf resort. He and the estate’s owner, Tom Griffin, sat down to discuss the transaction at the Cock & Bull restaurant. Griffin recalls that Trump was…

In the last eight years, President Barack Obama oversaw the largest growth in federal spending to reduce inequality since the Great Society of the 1960s. In the next four years, President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives will probably…

Jessica T. Mathews Judging from the lack of attention to foreign policy in this campaign, one might conclude that few security challenges loom. Other than immigration policy (more a domestic than an international issue), trade, and, occasionally, the Iran nuclear deal, the rest of the world has been…

Thomas Dworzak/Magnum Photos Donald Trump at the first presidential debate, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, September 26, 2016 Benjamin M. Friedman This year’s election is not about economics. The paramount question is whether a person exhibiting no qualification for the office—neither…

Mark Danner All American elections tend to be touted as historic, for all American culture tends toward the condition of hype. Flummoxing, then, to be confronted with a struggle for political power in which, for once, all is at stake. We have long since forfeited the words to confront it, rendering…

Doug Chayka Next week, if all goes well, someone will win the presidency. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. Will the losing side believe the results? Will the bulk of Americans recognize the legitimacy of the new president? And will we all be able to clean up the piles of lies, hoaxes and…

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The stories we tell ourselves, far more than the evidence of scientific analysis, determine how we interpret the world around us. Accordingly, the fate of capitalism rests in no small measure on the real and imagined characters whose ethics and efforts, at any given time, seem to embody the system.…

Domas Kārlis Brilovs, "Geiserika uzbrukums Romai", 1835 2016. gada 31. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Māris Zanders: "Zelta laikmets" kā domāšanas inertuma izpausme Vienkāršošana, kas tiek lietota politiskajā retorikā, aprakstot problēmas, iespējams, nozīmē cenšanos noslēpt nespēju problēmas risināt.…

2016. gada 27. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Trīs mēnešu laikā mēs interneta žurnālā "Satori" esam publicējuši rakstu un sarunu sēriju par dažādām pilsoniskās aktivitātes formām: par normālas un veselīgas demokrātiskas sabiedrības izpausmēm, kuru klātbūtne parasti liecina par to, ka cilvēki šajā…

Nabadzības radīšana un apkarošana Pirms okupācijas Latvijas lauksaimniecība bija attīstīta; valstī stabils rūpniecības sektors – Latvija tika ražotas automašīnas, lidmašīnas, augstas kvalitātes radio un foto aparatūra. Atsaucoties uz 1940. gadā izdotu salīdzinošās statistikas pārskatu, Krūmiņš…

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OCTOBER 31, 2016 AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing to diagnose and cure the ailments of modern politics. Against Democracy and Against Elections both fall into this category. Despite their…

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild William Widmer/The New York Times/Redux Donald Trump in front of the Samaritan’s Purse mobile kitchen at an event for flood victims, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August…

In the first US presidential debate, Donald Trump played the tough guy, as he so often does. “There’s bad things going on, some really bad things,” he declared. “We need law and order.” Imposing law and order, be it clamping down on black criminals in the inner cities or torturing terrorists –…

What a terrible time it is to be a man. Emasculated by desk jobs and postmodern gender politics, they can’t even exercise eternally manly virtues – correcting other people’s grasp of trivial facts, say, or punching them in the face. And as everyone knows, men are incapable of maintaining proper…

I left college in 1997 with a motto , Czesław Miłosz’s “What is unpronounced tends to nonexistence,” and a corollary, that pronouncing things might bring them into being. What I wanted to pronounce was politics. To me, that meant making all my book-learning come alive in a shared awareness that…

October 25, 2016 Halloween Is Coming, Vladimir Putin Isn’t by by Photo by Jedimentat44 | CC BY 2.0 I would not rank Vladimir Putin high on a list of leaders. If I lived in Russia I’d be working for major reforms in my government, just as I’m doing where I do live, in the United States. I regularly…

Russell Baker What is to be done about the Republican Party? Sixty years ago it was the party of Dwight Eisenhower and a dynamic suburban middle class putting an end at last to the long reign of the New Deal Democrats. This summer it became the pathetic captive of Donald Trump, a television…

“I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “ Walking ,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The point of his saunter had been to “forget all my morning occupations, and my obligations to society.” Alas: “It sometimes…

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It is Saturday, 1 November 2014. I am book-browsing at Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue in New York City when my attention is caught by a collection of beautifully produced volumes. I look closer and realise that these books are part of what’s called the Leatherbound Classic series. An assistant…

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Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth. Except, of course, it doesn’t work out…