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...matter. For the past two months, his essays on crime have been featured as the cover stories of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. A new book titled Crime and Public Policy was edited by Wilson, and a revised edition of his own work, Thinking About Crime, will soon appear. An excerpt from that book makes up yet another article in the current issue of the journal Public Policy...
...that sounded above the crackle were an unfamiliar Russian military-aviation jargon. The pilots' voices were unemotional, as if they were reporting to their ground controllers on the progress of the most routine training exercise. All of which made the tape more eloquently horrifying when it was played in excerpt for a national television audience by President Reagan and in full for the United Nations Security Council by U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In the translation, the pilot of the Soviet Sukhoi-15 interceptor who fired the missiles that blasted Korean Air Lines Flight 007 out of the skies, killing...
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Historian Roy Franklin Nichols was not describing our time. He was writing about America's chaotic years before the Civil War; this excerpt is from his classic work The Disruption of American Democracy, published in 1948. For some students of today's politics, there are alarming echoes. The issues are different, but a paralyzing partisanship is stronger today than at any other time in the past 30 years, fanned daily by the President and the six announced Democratic contenders, whose followers pick up on the rancorous debate and drag it into Congress's deliberations...
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