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From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic,...
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.
Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society. The work references Plato's Republic.
It's said that the poet Homer educated ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating...
Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines is an explosive, tell-all book, detailing the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and the resistance to that mandate by service members who could not, in good conscience, go along. As an actively serving Navy Commander, Robert A. Green Jr. removes...
The Washington, D.C.-based chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, Mark Leibovich is a frequently published author and the winner of the National Magazine Award. In This Town, Leibovich taps into his extensive insight—and trademark irreverence—to deliver a searing exposé of Washington's tangled "media industrial complex."
Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book's expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent.
In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East "is quieter today than it has been in two decades." One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and Israel
...20) SO GOOD
Lancé par Ulule & So Press en juin 2020, le magazine So good raconte les histoires de celles et ceux qui rendent le monde meilleur, enfin moins pire. Des activistes, des artistes, des politiques, des associations, des entrepreneurs, des scientifiques, des citoyens, qui tous à leur manière apportent des solutions aux défis sociaux et environnementaux, et qui bien souvent passent sous le radar des médias. L’idée
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