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Lewis is the author of many books that describe the operations of American institutions from baseball to capitalism, including Moneyball, Liar's Poker, and The Big Short. ..…
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Sunstein is author of many articles and books, including Republic com, Risk and Reason, Why Societies Need Dissent, The Second Bill of Rights, Laws of Fear Beyond Precautionary Principle, Worst-Case Scenarios, Nudge Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness ( with Richard H. ... ..…
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He is a contributing writer to the People's World, Z Magazine, Portside and other progressive publications. ..…
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He was a staff writer at Arms Control Today and Washington editor of Salon. ..…
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He is the author of Dealbreaker: Donald Trump and the Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Deal (2018) by Clarity Press. . . . MORE FROM THIS AUTHOR . Is Trump Letting Al-Qaeda Sympathizers Survive in Syria? ..…
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Chelsea Gardner from the University of Hawaii and her co-author Katie Fine from Florida State University were honored with the award for a talk titled ”Mycenaean Kourotrophoi Figurines and Lateralization Bias: How Recent Neurological Research Explains the Left-Cradling Phenomenon”. . ..…
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Craig Eyermann is Research Fellow at Independent Institute, Managing Director of Political Calculations, and the creator of Government Cost Calculator at MyGovCost.org.. ..…
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He's a fiction writer and journalist and a member of the National Writers Union. . . . . ..…
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About the Author . Karen Hurvitz is a Boston-based lawyer and on the board of American Friends of LIBI. . . ..…
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Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’” . King’s stirring speech was immediately singled out as the highlight of the successful march. . ..…
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Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. ..…
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Author: | internet@granma.cu . january 21, 2019 10:01:33 . . . . . January 22, in Havana’s Hotel Rivera, Fidel held what he called the world’s largest press conference, Operation Truth, and the public trials of Batista’s henchmen. ..…
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On Dec. 13, 2018, The New York Times interviewed the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple author Alice Walker. ..…
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I have had a correspondence with Claudia Dreifus, the author of the article. ... I believe that Anne Frank would have become a great writer had her family been offered refuge, but unfortunately, she was turned away from the United States. ..…
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The Right to Try How Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting Lifesaving Treatments They Need by Darcy Olsen 311 pages. ..…
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John Adams, 1851, The Works of John Adams, Second President of United States with Life of Author, Notes and Illustrations, by his Grandson Charles Francis Adams, Volumes, Vol., Defence of Constitutions Vol. ..…
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Matthews is a professor of leadership and American history at the University of Puget Sound and the author of “Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot” (University of Notre Dame, 2019). . . ... No writer has been more generous to Bush than journalist Jon Meacham, the author of The..…
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Pessimists sounding alarms about the Chinese economy with their “this time it is different” speeches have long been dismissed by optimists convinced by what they regarded as the near-divine powers of the Chinese leadership and invincible might of China’s economic engine. . They were to be..…
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Yves Engler is co-author of Stop Signs Cars and Capitalism on Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay. ..…
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At that point, it is up to the owner to battle through bureaucratic and legal thickets if he wants to recover the property. ... Unless the owner can win that costly, uphill battle to recover his property, the government gets to sell it. ..…
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“Lord, we are grateful that faith has triumphed over evil,” Father Gerritts said in his opening prayer. . ... Pastor Ron Mathews, of First Lutheran Church in Barron, offered the prayer for schools: “We pray in gratitude, Almighty God, for the gift of those who serve in our schools,”..…
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LifeNews com Note Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and author and editor of several books on abortion topics. ..…
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At the Washington Post, opinion writer Alyssa Rosenberg went to far as to herald this return as a “feminist victory” because Pence is “preserving [her] professional independence.” . . ... Marcie Bianco is a writer and an editor living in California. She is columnist at the Women’s..…
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Author . . . Associate Professor of Political Science at Nasarawa State University Keffi . . . . ..…
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A New York Public Radio reporter said she heard a voice shout, “May almighty God have mercy on this state!” ..…
shutdown’s economic impact is a forceful reminder of why government
Author Michael Lewis, in his book “The Fifth Risk,” details many of the important yet little-noticed functions that government agencies handle better than private industry, such as the protection of food safety or the oversight of spent nuclear resources. ..…
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The FRSO is extremely secretive about membership, but this author estimates that it has 2,000 to 3,000 active members. ... Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from New Zealand. ..…
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Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. ... Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. . . ..…
cuomo signs reproductive health act after legislature votes
'May almighty God have mercy on the state of New York,' someone yelled inside the Senate parlor, after the bill passed and riotous cheers and applause faded. . ... Bethany Bump| Staff writer . . . . . . . . . . . . ..…
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Author . . . Ph.D. Candidate - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University . . . . ... Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National..…
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Charlie Cobb – Writer, SNCC veteran . Charlie Thomas – Volunteer, SNCC . ... Heather Ann Thompson – Professor and author, University of Michigan . ..…
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She is the author of “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.” ..…
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Randy Shaw is Director of Tenderloin Housing Clinic and author of Generation Priced Out Who Gets to Live in New Urban America... Shaw is the author of four books on activism, including The Activist's Handbook Winning Social Change in Century, and Beyond Fields Cesar Chavez, UFW and..…
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Shaw is the author of four books on activism, including The Activist's Handbook Winning Social Change in Century, and Beyond Fields Cesar Chavez, UFW and Struggle for Justice in Century. ..…
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How could that help prevent the seemingly inevitable cycle of near-destruction when any machine that would lord it over us will be designed on the instructions of humans? ... Author login and feeds . . Academic . . Alternative media (Australian) . . ..…
bert corona: father of the illegal immigration movement
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from New Zealand. ... Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. . . . . . ..…
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Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected]. ..…
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Bernard Shaw and Romain Rolland justified OGPU terror and the kangaroo court in Moscow; Aragon, Barbusse (the author of the apologetic biography of Stalin: Stalin. ... Juan Benet, a famous Spanish writer, suggested “strengthening the guards (in GULAG), so that people like Solzhenitsyn..…
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Law professor, scholar, author, civil rights champion Michelle Alexander is perhaps best known for her book titled “The New Jim Crow: Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness,” her most noted work. . ... Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached..…
henry giroux: trump’s enabling of violence and hate is a form of
He is a prolific author and journalist. His books -more than 65 – include America at War With Itself; Disposable Futures: Violence in the Age of Spectacle; Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror; Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, and The Violence of..…
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. — Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, author of Brokers of Deceit How U.S. ... Young, The Pennsylvania State University, author of Soul Power Culture, Radicalism, and Making of U.S. ..…
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On Wednesday, Carol Anderson, author and civil rights thought leader, spoke at Moritz School of Law about the suppression poses to democracy. ..…
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populism is a struggle for democracy
But consent is not democracy, as the declaration’s principal author Thomas Jefferson knew when he held that there was a ‘natural aristocracy’ of publicly minded men who would be chosen for office by an electorate mainly comprised of white, property-owning males. ..…
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Video Player Close . . . by Xinhua writer Luo Jingjing . NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China are expected to work together and communicate better for the prosperity of the two nations and the world, experts and politicians have said. . ..…
measles outbreaks make 2018 a near-record year for u.s.
Maggie Fox is a senior writer for NBC News and TODAY, covering health policy, science, medical treatments and disease. . . . . . . . . . . . ..…
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One apparent reason could be that Khashoggi was an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon. ... Quoting the retired US Brigadier General Anthony Tata on December 21, Donald Trump tweeted: “General Anthony Tata, author, ‘Dark..…
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