American Heritage: Conflict and Political Discourse
Politics is more than the pursuit of shared ideals. It is the way that a society makes its governing decisions. Two major sources of disagreement dominate the political stage: conflict over distribution of scarce resources and differences in values....
Candidates and Campaigns: Contrast Between Early Congressmen and Today's Legislators
We need politicians; it is the way our democracy works. At the beginning of the republic people went to Congress with the idea of serving one term and then going home. This self-imposed term limit may seem admirable, but it did not allow people the ...
American People and Foreign Affairs, The
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb refutes the notion that the American people have no interest in foreign affairs. Mr. Kalb explains that when politicians and the media only focus on domestic is...