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Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical shopping and community initiatives like gardens and farmers' markets can stop corporate globalization. These small acts might make life better for some, but they don't challenge the drive for profit that's damaging our communities and the earth. No Local shows how localism's fixation on small comes from...
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America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age-and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families to a loss of faith in the American idea itself. This crisis of values occurs just as the country faces an unprecedented array of fiscal, economic, social, and national-security...
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Todos los caminos llevan al Palacio de La Zarzuela. Desde allí, los Borbones reinan hace 43 años gracias a los designios del dictador Francisco Franco, primero, a la audacia de Juan Carlos I y Adolfo Suárez, después, y a la anuencia y complicidad del PSOE y el PP, por último. Los dos partidos que han gobernado España durante los últimos 35 años son los principales garantes del sistema político surgido de la Transición y apuntalado por la...
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Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of, among other books, Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, The Search for Historical Meaning; and The Conservative Movement. Editor in chief of This World, he is also a senior editor of Telos and a contributing editor to Chronicles and Humanitas.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century...
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La democracia parece estar atravesando por una espesa neblina. El sistema político más prestigioso desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial -reforzado aún más después de la caída del muro de Berlín- ha pasado a ser cuestionado por unos y otros. Hay quienes la rechazan abiertamente como sistema de gobierno, o piensan que sus resultados son pobres, que está aplastada por los poderes económicos, que las élites políticas no representan a la...
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During the Nixon administration impeachment process, in August, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice deemed it necessary to have, for its own use, a document outlining the historical and legal aspects of impeachment; thus this document. Impeachment is a seldom-visited aspect of American political life; encountered only twice in the past, during the administrations of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon. (And, 24 years later, Bill Clinton.) This is a...
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Con esta nueva publicación, muy en el espíritu de nuestro Grupo de estudios interdisciplinario sobre paz, conflicto y posconflicto (JANUS), marcamos el acento sobre un hecho fundamental: cómo cualquier proceso político, económico, social y aún afectivo, la paz tiene sus olvidos y olvidados.
Contrario al maniqueísmo radical de algunos sectores reaccionarios que le presentan a la opinión pública la imagen de una paz "perfecta", y quienes no...
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¿Qué papel juega Mohamed VI en el cambio social y político que ha experimentado Marruecos durante los últimos veinte años?
Lorenzo Peñas Roldán analiza en esta obra los años de reinado del monarca marroquí repasando la evolución que, en todos los aspectos, ha experimentado nuestro país vecino.
Gracias a las medidas tomadas y a las políticas que ha ido implementado durante estos veinte años, Mohamed VI ha convertido a Marruecos en un referente...
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In light of the predatory practices employed by massive corporations some of which are even bigger than nations and their wealthy owners, a movement arose from among the people known as the 99 percent, those who are not among the wealthiest 1 percent of the population. The world watched as members of the Occupy movement poured into the streets, demanding that those responsible for the economic crises faced by the world be held accountable for their...
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Treinta personas, no todos especialistas pero sí comprometidas con el Chile que queremos, son convocados a "redactar" el articulado de una nueva Constitución.
El resultado expresa los anhelos de la mayoría y la urgencia de las transformaciones necesarias para un nuevo contrato social que los recoja.
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¿Es que sigue siendo útil analizar la realidad política actual con criterios de izquierda o derecha? Si las izquierdas se proponen sobrevivir al shock de la realidad sin convertirse en otra cosa, tienen que revisar tanto su pasado como su presente. No se puede dar a las cuestiones de hoy respuestas tan profundamente reaccionarias como las que se dan. El pensamiento independiente, sin aparato político y organizado sólo en momentos puntuales para...
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The impact of war, and the lingering aftereffect it has on both veterans and civilians, is-for myriad reasons-largely invisible to the public. Popular media may create news cycles around horrors or stereotypes, but the effort required to redefine and sustain "normal" lives after war stays below the surface and out of sight. In Retire the Colors, nineteen thought-provoking stories by veterans and civilians consider the residual effects of Iraq and...
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Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford. His books include Citizens, Families, and Reform and The Possibility of Politics.
In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing....
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Resist! Goals and Tactics for Changemakers offers an encyclopedic guide for how you can be a changemaker. Critics fault recent democracy uprisings for not having a positive plan for change, so this comprehensive guide includes international models of democratic local and national examples. The extensive book outlines major economic, environmental and political problems with examples of tactics currently used to solve them. It includes theories about...
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The deep political divide that is growing ever more apparent is a far cry from our Founder's envisioned Utopia. Whether through hate mongering, religious-political extortion, bold-faced lies, or outright treason, our political leaders are bringing forth the apocalypse of the American ethos. It is important to note that George Washington had a fixed opinion on the punishment of traitors hanging. This absolutism is exactly what he expected his successors...
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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La democracia, está en crisis. Las sociedades neoliberales han confundido la búsqueda de la libertad con el placer del libertinaje. En México, se considera que la democracia es un sistema de gobierno fallido. ¿Era esto lo que tanto anhelábamos? ¿Era esto lo que la alternancia del 2000 nos prometía?
Tres autores con prosas y experiencias distintas entre sí, discurren en los mismos temas y procrean un diálogo entre ellos.
Da Jandra propone...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Stevens's The Conspiracy to End America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Conspiracy to End America" by Stuart Stevens offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the Republican Party and the role of conservative media in shaping political narratives. Stevens, a former political consultant, reflects on his career and the influence of figures like Roger Ailes, who later led...
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Journalism as a Democratic Art is an edited collection of 16 essays by Cole Campbell (1954–2007), former newspaper editor, dean at the University of Nevada School of Journalism, and a colleague of the Kettering Foundation. These essays reflect Campbell's effort to rethink some of the underlying assumptions that he believed kept his craft at a distance from citizens. To Campbell, readers were not just consumers of information but citizens facing...
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Los autores de esta obra analizan los derechos humanos como relaciones de poder, discursos políticos y performativos, normas internacionales, organización institucional y movilización social. Esto nos obliga a pensar los derechos humanos desde diferentes ciencias sociales: la sociología política y jurídica, la antropología jurídica, las políticas públicas, la teoría de la democracia, entre otras. Desde la perspectiva que dan estas disciplinas,...
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