Word: nation
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...March 6 edition of The Nation University of California historian Jon Wiener writes about evidence showing that the late Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons worked with American intelligence agents after World War II to bring Nazi collaborators to the U.S. as Soviet Studies experts...
...height of the de Man controversy, Wiener wrote a similar piece in The Nation which argued that there was a relationship between the ahistorical nature of deconstructionism and de Man's Nazi sympathies...
...have government efforts failed so miserably to slow the drug trade? Easy answers such as bureaucratic ineptitude and "they're all corrupted by drug money" aren't convincing. Many other countries have succeeded in preventing drugs from becoming a national catastrophe. But our government, as the Washington case demonstrates, has failed because it is unwilling to attack the source of the nation's drug problems: the hopelessness and poverty of the inner city...
Eventually people must realize that the costs of inaction are borne by more than the poor. Extremist groups such as the Nation of Islam have cleaned up drug-infested areas and earned the support of many local residents. If the government cannot help the prisoners of the urban ghetto, hate groups will...
AMERICAN cities are among the most racially segregated in the world. The number of Black neighborhoods suffering from extreme poverty has grown steadily for the past 20 years. These ghettos have terrible schools, few job opportunities and high crime rates. Although ghetto residents comprise a small percentage of the nation's poor, they account for approximately half of federal welfare expenditures...