Showing posts with label George Washington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Washington. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Elon Musk’s Controversial Politics: Beyond the Financials

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As U.S. President Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, 2025, Elon Musk, shareholder and CEO of Tesla, announced that he...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Congress: Hitched to the Status Quo

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To lead is to be out in front, pointing the jet’s nose one way rather than another. Leadership is not that which causes drag at the back of...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Morsi as Partisan in Constitution-Building: Lessons from Washington

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Appealing for unity after the controversial ratification of a draft constitution in December 2012, President Morsi of Egypt pledged in a ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Veto Power of the U.S. President

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On September 12, 1787, in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, Gerry claimed that the "primary object of the revisionary check on the ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The State of the Union Address: The Presidency as Presiding or Partisan?

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On The O’Reilly Factor on the evening of Obama’s health-care “summit” at the White House in 2009, Bill O’Reilly told Laura Ingrahams that ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Mario Monti: Succumbing to Power?

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He was supposed to have been reluctantly pushed into briefly stepping in as prime minister in Italy to push austerity measures through th...
Monday, August 8, 2011

What Is a Member-State?

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It is easy to get locked into a certain way of viewing something, even if the perspective, it turns out, has more to do with one’s epoch tha...