Democracy is the best and the worst type of government. (American) Democrats will do anything for the poor – except make them rich. (American) Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp [either political or military]. (Roman) Far...

With the two major exceptions of the Korean War (1940–1953) and the Vietnam War (1965–1973), the Cold War involved little actual military conflict. It was primarily a war of nerves in which the United States sought both to prevent war...

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious...

KEEPING ONE'S mouth shut about politics now can be as hard as not talking baseball; but opening it loudly and critically in a social or work setting can be akin to lamenting a Yankee loss through a bullhorn at Fenway. Not smart. Not...

"We shall have to fight the politician who, knowing that posterity has done nothing for us, believes we need do nothing for posterity." -William lnge. "To allow politics to become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is...

Science: With the president sure to veto a bill expanding embryonic stem cell research, a new breakthrough should make the whole issue moot. But it won't stop Congress and presidential candidates from playing politics.The newest legislation seeking to allow the destruction of human embryos for...

In the following essay, Blotner discusses politics as portrayed in literature of the American South.

In the following essay, Larson questions whether or not there is a correlation between global cultural, intellectual, and political anti-communism and the "canonization of Latin American modernism."

In the following essay, Hanson attempts to locate the difference between genuine "social conscience" and "political sentiment" as they are expressed in twentieth-century novels.

The discrepency between whether the domestic affairs of a country should be handled by an international organization or a single superpower.

Provides an outline of various issues in politics.

A self-analysis of one person's membership of both a terminal political community, defined as a community that commands ultimate loyalty over and above any collectives either within or outside the community, and a collective that lacks this quality. In this case, the person belongs to both the terminal political community of Americans and the collectivity of the Buddhist church. The self-analysis compares the structural and psychological basis of the person's membership in each, as well as the types of cl