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“... Adonis who has significantly narrowed the gender gap and who has a literal belief in the New Deal. Bill Bradley – boring and pompous and tenth-rate but used to play basketball and take showers with African Americans. John McCain – nobody’s idea of an intellectual but likes to talk dirty and got himself shot down while scattering high explosives over ...”

“... or Toronto. Canadian taxpayers, meanwhile, would be asked to foot a substantial portion of the bill for missile defence – although the bulk of the jobs and profits would go to the United States. Yet the Canadian Government appears poised to offer its full co-operation. Although the Defence Minister, Art Eggleton, insists that it is still too early to ...”

“... Ireland and the Middle East is meanwhile left a complete blank. Danner simply doesn’t fill the bill. Colombia needs military aid: why should a beleaguered democratic government not receive US support? The question may look unsophisticated, but sophistication is not always the best response; as Disraeli said, ‘When your house is on fire … you send for ...”

“... spite of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best efforts in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys) and the Clinton farce. Doris Kearns Goodwin turns the unorthodox Roosevelt marital arrangements from sordid scandal into generous love. No Ordinary Time challenges the current right-wing support of ‘traditional family values’, for those who lived at the Roosevelt ...”

“... of impressive PR skills, on the international stage especially. From Thatcher to Blair, Reagan to Clinton, this formula has been characteristic of Western democracies in recent decades. To many, it was a surprise – and a shock – that the guest of honour at Macron’s first 14 July celebration was Donald Trump, whose style seems the exact opposite. But the ...”

“... began, and Nader was reduced to rear-guard defences of existing regulations. By the mid-1990s, the Clinton administration made clear that the Democrats had also moved to the right, along with much of the ‘liberal media’, led by the Washington Post and New York Times. Recoiling from the Democrats’ right turn and the corporate-sponsored banality of public ...”

“... calibre rounds.In February 2023, Barry Moore, a Republican congressman from Alabama, introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives to ‘declare an AR-15-style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56 x 45mm Nato round to be the National Gun of the United States’. The resolution was co-sponsored by three other Republicans: Lauren Boebert ...”

“... it not? – and it would put an end to a terrible historic curse. And if not the next leader, then Clinton – ‘Yes, tell Clinton to do it.’ Marinkovic removed his dark blue peaked hat, ran his fingers over his cropped white hair and then replaced the hat, making the final adjustments with unreasonable care. He proffered ...”

“... vote had rallied strongly to Truman. Without it Dewey would have won by 267 to 225. Carter and Clinton (twice) could not have gained office without the black vote; indeed Johnson in 1964 was the last Democrat to win a majority of the white vote. He used his victory to push through the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, observing that this meant ...”

“... Hanauer is in the vanguard of the ‘Fight for 15’, the campaign for a $15 minimum wage. Like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who have also issued loud warnings about inequality, he is heir to a long tradition of social concern among the wealthy in the US. They have reason to be worried. The last time inequality reached comparable levels was shortly before ...”

“... who has been deeply involved in both fiscal and monetary policymaking, first as a member of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and later as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. But despite the allusion to Friedman and Schwartz in the book’s title, he is decidedly not a monetarist, but a Keynesian, a regular contributor to the Wall ...”

“... smaller than that of Brooklyn and a life expectancy lower than that of North Korea, shredded the bill. Manchin didn’t want welfare spending, and he wanted higher taxes to pay for any other spending. The equally right-wing senator from Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema, vetoed any talk of taxes. What passed in the end was not the capacious ecological and feminist ...”

“... they had somehow overlooked.’ America asserts its inhumanity in the form of a $61,000 hospital bill, but nothing is the same. ‘The doors of bland suburban houses now looked possible, outlined, pulsing – for behind any one of them could be hidden a bright and private glory.’In her memoir, Priestdaddy (2017), Lockwood described her childhood as the ...”

“... to infirm octogenarians holding on to office when unable to discharge their responsibilities; the Bill of Rights includes the right to bear arms but excludes any sort of equality right; and, to top it all, the amendment procedure renders the constitution the most difficult to alter of any in the world, meaning that any significant reform to the system is ...”

“... pledges and absurd boasts about future profits. He once promised $3 billion over ten years to the Clinton Global Initiative in an off-the-cuff remark at a fundraiser. Clinton dragged him up on stage to give him a hug, many of his staff wept at his generosity and the papers reported the figure as if it bore some relation to ...”