… Agenda for a Second Term Realistic liberals, or practical progressives, will not expect President … Roosevelt’s second administration to achieve the income of $4,870 per family which the National Survey of … represented, or were capable of influencing, considerable bodies of public opinion. The scope of his victory may alter …
Essays
… for use in the future. Paradoxically, much of the commentary on the nature of the constitutional order … that the President serves not only as chief executive, but also as head of state, or as symbolic and ceremonial leader … still be made politically effective; and as Neustadt again points out, presidential power in this sense is the power to …
… to admit. It’s not just that television and tabloids, film, computer graphics, and virtual reality highjinks “speak” to … that she, in fact, did; but it’s just as possible that a giddier, more expansive century would have so altered the … eyes. Moreover, her gaze is usually slightly offcenter, as if being photographed were as painful for her as …
… of a ruling class that came closer to being medieval European than Main Street American, The rhetoric of … their defensiveness that transparent, the bizarre that common among them. Forewords emphasize the. distance between … skills to prominence. Such hopes traced the pressure points of a dividing and developing society. Ruffin’s …
Reporting
… are pieces of a rich biological puzzle. While the boreal encompasses about a third of the world’s forests, it also … browning, with so many trees perishing you could watch them die from space. Meanwhile, its northern edge has been racing … can breed fragility, but incredible resilience too. He points to a recent study that looked back at former glacial …
… When we open a certain book of plays at random, and come upon such a passage as Night’s candles are burnt out, … that they are perceived by observers to exert upon the bodies that are their neighbours—their contemporaries in … him and posterity; never this particular one. Perhaps I may also speak of it, this thing that I call the “contemporary …