Articles on US Politics
Blake is relentless in his attacks on both the church and the state. While his peers had the luxury of expressing their activism in the form of speeches, books, and pamphlets, he utilized with brevity lines of poetry to express a massive need for drastic social change.
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The line that Roosevelt toed in 1938 is almost identical to the line President Barack Obama must toe to this day. In fact, the parallels are almost staggering. They both needed to convince Congress to take drastic short term steps to repair a damaged economy; but yet felt a responsibility to ensure it could...
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Confucius taught of how one is to govern themselves, and how the state is to govern society.
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Protestors aren't crying out for a game change, they're requesting a booth review on Capitalism.
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When you consider the massive changes in federal government ethical reform and overall change of attitude toward Washington corruption, it is not difficult to forgive these relatively minor ethical transgressions.
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In a state of nature, Hobbes describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short” (The Leviathan, Ch. XIII para. 9). His view of the natural state of man is dark and pessimistic. He describes a condition in which everyone must fend for themselves: “…during the time men live without a common power to keep them...
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As technology becomes more prominent in American’s lives, exposure to opposing political views becomes more limited and avoidable.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. This disparity of opinion exists even within the group of lawmakers that created it. A much disputed, and bitterly debated, bill that was signed into law in 2010 by President Barack Obama. It is understandable...
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