Word: politicalization
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From private fibs to public whoppers, rampant lying is a spreading dry rot in the American body politic
The problem with the Soviet Union is that each of its many incompatible parts may be slighted by a name that failed to take specific national identities into account. The solution reached by Pakistan (an initial from each of its eight component regions) would be ideal -- except for the fact...
Congress and the White House have been bickering all summer over whether to attach human-rights conditions to MFN status for China, and there could be another fight this fall over President Bush's recent promise to grant MFN to the Soviet Union. The very subject of the U.S.S.R. sends...
For three months, it was Saddam Hussein vs. most of the world. Then, last week, it suddenly seemed to be George Bush vs. most of his own countrymen, or at least everyone with access to a microphone, an op-ed page or a pulpit. Criticisms ranged from the reasonable (an...
Under God abounds in complexities and ironies, not the least of which is how a nation founded on Christian values could mandate a separation of church and state. Wills observes that the American body politic routinely functions as if there were no division. The proscription of a state religion does...