Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
Author: Sarah Smarsh | Source: The Guardian (October 13, 2016) | Subjects: Excerpts, Journalism, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.
Author: Nicholas Kristof | Source: The New York Times (September 22, 2017) | Subjects: Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy
In a Pakistani religious school called the Haqqania madrasa, Osama bin Laden is a hero, the Taliban’s leaders are famous alumni and the next generation of mujahedeen is being militantly groomed. (NOTE: written in 2000, before 9/11 occurred).
Author: Jeffrey Goldberg | Source: The New York Times (June 25, 2000) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, Religion
Last May, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright handed German foreign minister Joschka Fischer a most confusing diagram. Beneath an array of apparently random scribbles, it depicted a map of Europe that appeared to have been defaced by an unusually energetic infant who had been allowed to run wild with a box of crayons.
After some effort, the eye could discern a number of sharply dissimilar circles … [ Read more ]
Author: Martin Walker | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2001) | Subjects: Articles & Links, International, Politics & Public Policy
Economic thinking is changing. If that thesis is correct – and there are many reasons to believe it is – then historical experience suggests policy and politics will change as well. How significant that change will be remains to be seen. It is still early days and the impact thus far has been limited. Few politicians or policymakers are even dimly aware of the changes … [ Read more ]
Author: Eric Beinhocker | Source: Evonomics | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
Will General Stanley McChrystal be our deus ex machina in Afghanistan? Or just the latest commander to succumb to the impersonal forces of history and geography?
Author: Robert D. Kaplan | Source: The Atlantic (April2010) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Military | War | Peace
An era of debt-fueled consumption has come to an end, and with it the economic culture that created it. If government is going to fill in for consumers, it will need to be smart about how it spends.
Author: Martin Walker | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy
As the president wrestles with policy decisions about Afghanistan, Iran, and elsewhere, pundits try to pigeonhole him: Is he a realist or an idealist? But the best American foreign policy has always been both, mixing moral aspiration with unsentimental prudence. Obama’s most useful model may be a predecessor who was a realist wrongly pegged as an idealist – Woodrow Wilson
Author: David M. Kennedy | Source: The Atlantic (January2010) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Foreign Policy, History, Politics & Public Policy