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It doesn't take a genius to realize America's political system is broken. Congress is hopelessly divided, doesn't represent the people who elected them, and is mired in gridlock. Our presidential elections involve picking between the better of two evils. But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if politicians actually represented the people who elected them, rather than the special interests that line their pockets? What if we could actually...
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Most of us are simply too busy to notice the ropes with which society binds us. We don't so much as blink at the billions our governments spend on defending us from our enemies. We have grown so familiar with the homeless people who line our streets at night that some of us no longer even question why theirs is a problem no government has yet been able to solve. And we're so preoccupied with making sure our children do their homework that we never...
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America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding.
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EINE KRITISCHE INTERVENTION
Die AfD ist in Ostdeutschland auf dem Vormarsch. In Umfragen ist sie oftmals die stärkste Partei, und liegt in einigen Bundesländern gar bei 35 Prozent. Doch das heißt: zwei Drittel der Ostdeutschen wählen nicht AfD. Susan Arndt gibt dieser oft übersehenen Mehrheit in ihrem sehr persönlichen Buch eine Stimme und zeigt, dass es auch ein anderes Ostdeutschland gibt und die AfD ein gesamtdeutsches Problem ist.
Bei manchen...
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Tras muchas décadas de debate público acerca de la influencia que ejerce el dinero (y sus poseedores) en el funcionamiento democrático en general y, particularmente, sobre la agenda pública, resulta evidente que la ciudadanía es sensible y está atenta a la cuestión del financiamiento de la política. De hecho, no existen, en las democracias contemporáneas, voces públicas que estén en desacuerdo con la premisa que afirma que la ciudadanía...
6) Fatal Arrest
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Fatal Arrest is a play that revolves around the sorry state of African politics. The play is set in Kiringiti, a fictitious African state. The nation is characterised by a barbaric rule and tribal bigotry where ignorant masses are treated to malicious treachery whilst being subjected to dictatorship and weary games of their tribal numbers being used to keep their oppressors ever in power. The tyrannical leaders are ready to wipe out anyone who stands...
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Bajo rostros cordiales y encantadores se ocultan obscenos intereses. Esta obra propone enriquecer el panorama moral y social respecto de las clases corruptas y conduce a los lectores desde la raíz de las formas de razonar del corrupto hasta su pérdida de escrúpulos. De forma llana y clara la autora describe el origen histórico de este flagelo y expone las principales teorías filosófico-humanistas al respecto, insistiendo en la inaplazable necesidad...
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Esther Díaz propone una cartografía de las múltiples contradicciones y paradojas de las sociedades contemporáneas que invita al lector a recorridos inesperados. La lectura de estas páginas constituye un sorprendente paseo entre inquietudes que nos convocan desde su candente actualidad.
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Este trabajo explora los matices de la idea contractualista y conceptos aledaños, y examina las miradas de Hobbes, Spinoza, Montesquieu y Smith. Luego, esbozada la disputa entre Iglesia y Estado, aborda las obras más contemporáneas de Rawls, Nozick y Dworkin y las peculiaridades de la Responsabilidad de Proteger, innovación teórica reciente de la teoría y la práctica políticas en la esfera internacional.
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Hay una falsificación de la historia -construida desde los centros hegemónicos del poder mundial- que oculta el camino real que recorrieron las naciones hoy desarrolladas para construir su poder nacional y alcanzar su actual estado de bienestar y progreso. Todas las naciones desarrolladas llegaron a serlo renegando de algunos de los principios básicos del liberalismo económico, en especial de la aplicación del libre comercio, y aplicando un fuerte...
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Imágenes violentas, tiernas, de esfuerzo por sobrevivir y de privaciones se suceden en Contraluz. Pero también gestos de solidaridad que alivian las penas y las necesidades más desgarradoras. Precisamente, un duelo entre la vida y la muerte en barrios de gente humilde, como las villas miserias de la periferia de Buenos Aires, donde se concentra una humanidad de inmigrantes de dentro y fuera del país de la pampa sin límites y las infinitas cabezas...
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Nightfall ushers in its own set of terrors. With every external light ablaze until dawn, I find solace in the illusion of visibility. But every creak, every rustle throws me into high alert, compelling me to scour the house for signs of the looming threat. The dining room becomes my vantage point, a silent sentinel observing the outdoors from three angles. The very shadows that were once familiar now become menacing.
Surprisingly, I find myself longing...
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¿Cambió nuestra vida el internet? ¿Nos cambió a nosotros? ¿Emparejó el terreno en cuanto a la desigualdad social, o surgieron nuevos privilegios? ¿Fortaleció, enriqueció o cuestionó nuestro sentido de comunidad? ¿Creó nuevas formas de identidad? ¿Nos permite ser mejores?
El internet hoy está -o es- incorporado, personificado y cotidiano, y en su horizonte promete: computadoras portátiles de vestir; internet móvil a más gente y en...
14) Terra
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"Terra" es una obra provocativa que desentraña con valentía las consecuencias devastadoras de las acciones humanas sobre el medio ambiente. A través de una narrativa corta y envolvente, el autor arroja luz sobre la explotación desenfrenada de los recursos naturales, la contaminación desmedida y el desdén por la biodiversidad. Desde los excesos industriales hasta la negligencia individual, cada página revela una crítica incisiva hacia una sociedad...
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The keyword here is hypnosis. I have observed when having discussions with people how common it is that people have a base set of standards that have absolutely nothing to do with functional reality; they are simply an accepted (from parents, church, teacher, scientist, authority figures) set of beliefs and accordingly behavioral patterns. Choices are made completely out of awareness. Actions are taken with the blind assumption that it's ok. And conversely...
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This material is useful regardless of the size of the campaign arena and is easily scalable from running for class president up to a national electoral challenge.During the last 100 years, many writers have applied Sun Tzu's book on war to business, sports, and, of course, various levels of politics. His instructions, considerations, suggestions, and warnings have been directly integrated into offensive and defensive strategies and tactics that have...
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In Why the Nineties Matter, Terry Anderson provides a broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Not simply a chronological account, the book focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day. Threading together politics, economic transformations, and sociocultural trends, he focuses on what mattered most in retrospect. Violent and extremist white nationalism intensified greatly in...
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Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities.
Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced...
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In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax...
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