The Fulbright Paradox
President Harry Truman once called Fulbright “an overeducated Oxford S.O.B.,” and the senator might have felt that was about right.
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America’s Middle East Policy Is Outdated and Dangerous
In his 1980 State of the Union address, which came in the wake of the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter described in grave terms the risks of losing access to Middle Eastern oil.
Washington’s Democracy Dilemma
By Frances Z. Brown and Thomas Carothers After four years of the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to democracy at home and…
How Americans Think About Trade
The way ordinary Americans think about trade is very different from the way economists and policy wonks think about it.
Federal judiciary of the United States
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal judiciary. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in district courts, each of which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty
Financial and General Functions of US Congress
Congress has authority over financial and budgetary policy through the enumerated power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.
Origin and Nature of US Cabinet
Origin and Nature of US Cabinet. Cabinet, in political systems, and the cabinet system of government originated in Great Britain….
US Federal Personnel and the Merit System
Those entrusted with the administrative duties are divided into two groups, political appointees and those who belong to the executive civil service.
Role of US Congress
Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government that represents the American people and makes the nation’s laws.
