emoluments: an american political tradition

All would appear to violate the foreign emoluments clause to prevent foreign influence on federal officials.  .   . ... In anticipation of the next summit meeting of the Group of 7 world leaders in 2020, he announced that his luxury golf resort in Doral, Florida, is a “great place”..

the world's most-surveilled cities

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras serve many purposes, ranging from crime prevention to traffic monitoring to observing industrial operations in environments not suitable for humans. ... A primary argument in favor of CCTV surveillance is improved law enforcement and crime..

europe: the cracks are beginning to show

., seven-in-ten say that relations with Germany are good, a sentiment that has not changed much in the past year. ... The fact that Carney, as spokesman, feels it appropriate to point out this fact as the representative of such an Atlanticist basket-case as the UK makes these views even..

from the bourgeois to the proletarian revolution

Even when the bourgeoisie, dependent on the support of the military, could not prevent the return of the monarchy, it divested it of all real power in affairs and questions of economic life and reduced its existence to the luxury of a decorative accessory, which it could accomplish nolens volens. . ..

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