Are We There Yet Reflections On Politics In America

Author : Nicholas Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 143573663X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are We There Yet? Reflections on Politics in America written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics. Former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson draws on a half-century in government and politics, from precinct captain to presidential appointments, in this analysis of what's wrong and how to fix it -- sprinkled with contemporaneous blog entries about the 2007-2008 presidential primary from an Iowa perspective.

Author : Isabel Sawhill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230362
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.

Author : Nicholas Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055707925X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do You Mean and How Do You Know? written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are the only species able to talk ourselves into difficulties that would not otherwise exist, from divorce to war. Here's a book full of practical suggestions on how to use our language to improve our lives.

Author : Nicholas Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304064816
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Test Pattern for Living written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test Pattern for Living is a kind of guidebook for anyone thinking about what they are doing with their life and why -- whether happy and wanting to stay that way, or working their way through one of life's many stresses. As such it touches on everything from camping to cooking, from religious values to the values of corporate advertising, the role of love and sexuality, and many, many more subjects. It leaves you making your own choices. But it frees you to ask what other choices you might have made if corporate media hadn't spent billions of dollars trying to persuade you to make the choices that maximize their profits.

Author : Susan B. Glasser
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815731337
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering Politics in a "Post-Truth" America written by Susan B. Glasser and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new Brookings Essay, Politico editor Susan Glasser chronicles how political reporting has changed over the course of her career and reflects on the state of independent journalism after the 2016 election. The Bookings Essay: In the spirit of its commitment to higquality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.

Author : Nicholas Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387911295
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columns of Democracy written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracies are under attack in many countries including our own. Wannabe dictators feel threatened by democraciesÕ existence. Their destructive efforts are abetted by democraciesÕ citizen apathy. This book examines the institutions, the ÒcolumnsÓ that support democracy. They include such institutions as independent media, K-12 and higher education, respected, independent judges, accessible voting systems, and public libraries. These institutions support both an active citizenry and meaningful checks on executivesÕ abuses. This book calls Americans to action Ð with suggestions. It also contains the authorÕs ÒcolumnsÓ Ð an example of citizen use of the column of democracy called media.

Author : Nicholas Johnson and Others
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557076412
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtualosity: Eight Students in Search of Cyberlaw written by Nicholas Johnson and Others and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Johnson and eight law students in the University of Iowa Cyberspace Law Seminar, Spring 2009, investigate everything from property rights in virtual worlds to domestic cyber attacks to K-12 students' rights with their online, off-campus speech.

Author : Dan Rather
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616207841
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Unites Us written by Dan Rather and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world’s biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions. With a fundamental sense of hope, What Unites Us is the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are, finally, one.

Author : James Lane Buckley
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594034788
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom at Risk written by James Lane Buckley and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays, many from the 1970s, in which James Buckley, a former senator, under secretary of state, and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, shares his opinions on the adverse effects of the growth of the federal government.

Author : Ruha Benjamin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509526439
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race After Technology written by Ruha Benjamin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide here.