brazil: corruption as a mode of rule

Beginning in 1965, the dictatorship's leaders attempted to shore up their position through creating two parties The National Renewal Alliance, the official party of the government, and Brazilian Democratic Movement. ..

notable deaths in 2019

John Dingell, a gruff Michigan Democrat who entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father's term and became a legislative heavyweight and longest-serving member of Congress, died on February 7. ... John Dingell, a gruff Michigan Democrat who..

how the tea party became a populist, big government

When the Washington Post contacted 647 Tea Party groups in 2010, they found that less than half of the organizations considered spending and limiting the size of government to be a primary concern. (Today, as Tea Party organizations have been taken over by populist grifters, then number..

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