In the United States, Political Science is conventionally divided into four major subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory. These divisions lack strong intellectual justification. They are largely a matter of convention, historical accident, and training. Indeed, members of the latter three subfields sometimes like...
authoritarianism
Mark Ciavarella, the disgraced judge who ruined the lives of countless young people without due process to stock the detention centers of cronies who paid him huge sums of money,.
Matt suggests that Walker is almost certainly overreaching in his politically selective attacks on the collective bargaining rights of public employees. As the protests continue, the polling data backs this.
Marc Lynch shares Charli's judgment about the Mubarak speech: It's hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak's speech today was for Egypt. In the extended runup to his remarks, every sign indicated that he planned to announce his resignation: the military's announcement that it had...
I don't care for this Chinese tendency to change leadership every few years. Makes it so hard to get a good, personality-driven hate on; just when you can finally remember.
Apparently, defense lawyers may have represented people accused of crimes. This is truly shocking in its own right, but here's something more shocking: they're being permitted to work in the.
Well, it's nice to know that this appalling story at least has a moderately happy ending.