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Subscribe now Nothing better shows, well OK really there's plenty, the bankruptcy of American politics than the once again empty threat of fiscal rebels in DC to quit paying the bills. Oxymoronically, the US Treasury writes the debt ceiling or debt limit “allows the government to finance existing
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Subscribe now (Continued from Part II) * Blue - APC Tinubu - 8,794,726 (36%) * Green - PDP Atiku - 6,984,520 (29%) * Red - LP Obi - 6,101,533 (25%) * Grey - NNPP Kwankwaso - 1,496,687 (6%) Last Saturday's Nigerian election results are
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Subscribe now (Continued from part I) About ten days out, the president's guy running our effort, who I wished had a much greater role in the entire campaign, sent me to Lagos to meet the senator who was running the PDP's efforts and talk to him
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Subscribe now After the 2004 Dean campaign, Trippi would ask me to do other campaigns. I'd refuse. The only reason I participated in that campaign was because I was so disgusted and angry at the criminally stupid Iraq war. For the previous dozen years, I hadn't
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They made hypocrite judgements after the fact But the name of the game is be hit and hit back So hurry home early, hurry on home Boom-Boom Mancini’s fighting Bobby Chacon Subscribe now Historian and novelist Gore Vidal wrote several decades ago, “The late Murray Kempton once noted that
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Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal has a piece on real politics in this third decade of the 21st century, showing first and foremost we have yet to barely grapple with the environmental challenges caused by industrialism. Industrial thinking completely dominates every aspect of the processes, thinking, and structure of
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Subscribe now (Continued from Göbeklitepe I) Göbeklitepe interacted with at least a dozen other sites in the immediate area. This whole area has come to be known as “Tas Tepeler” - Turkish for stone hills. “It is a fact that both Göbeklitepe and other settlements were sites part of an
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Subscribe now If you could time travel to a savanna in East Africa 150,000 years ago, take a new born infant from her mother's arms, bring her back to today, raise her in Brookline, Massachusetts, she could end up attending Harvard or MIT. Across her childhood she
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Subscribe now Across three thousand years of recorded Western history, democracy is an anomaly. Just as rare are good books on the culture, structure, and processes of democracy. As someone who spent a lifetime studying and progressively incapable of practicing democracy, I can recommend only a handful of truly good
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Subscribe now This is a review of a FT book review. Apologies to the authors of the book if they are actually saying something more profound, actually anything profound at all, than what's revealed in this review. Problems start with the article’s title, “Who’s the real
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Subscribe now The other evening I dropped into a local Istanbul establishment called the James Joyce. So named establishments can be found in many large cities across the planet, all devoid of writing, but you will be able to find two things; a pint of Guinness and the Premier League