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Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

The triangle, Mr. Walz and others would learn, was running electoral campaigns, grass-roots organizing and devising public policy. Mr. Wellstone cared greatly about all three. He would argue that electoral politics without community organizing was a politics absent a base, and community organizing without electoral politics was a marginalized polit... See more

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If they view their political opponents as incompetent, irrational, or immoral, then they won’t be motivated to compromise.

Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die

Living, and thinking about it: two perspectives on life

The text explores two perspectives on well-being: the experiencing self and the remembering self, highlighting their differences, implications for measuring happiness, and the challenges in comparing well-being across cultures.

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The Assembly was led by the thirty-seven-year-old Alfred E. Smith, a seven-term veteran from the Lower East Side, son of an Irish mother and an Italian-German father, a vital cog in the Tammany organization who despite an eighth-grade education had demonstrated a political savvy that catapulted him ahead of a legion of better-educated, more seasone

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First, she squarely took on the “racism” taboo that disarms conservatives so effectively to this very day: “Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them. Why are white votes bad?9 […] Rule of thumb, Republicans: If you aren’t being called ‘racist’ by the New York Times, you’re losing.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Sorensen also prepared a comparative study of twenty-one potential Stevenson running mates, analyzing their attributes in twelve categories: availability, compatibility, political outlook, public reputation, marital condition, officeholding or political experience, age and health, military record, voter appeal, TV personality, and wealth. On Sorens

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

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