All successful American politicians need to have a strong command of the ever-changing and powerful “new media” that has recently encapsulated the United States (US) in an attempt to avoid being ostracized by the public, as demonstrated by Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich. However, not every American political figure caught in a sex scandal has […]
James Madison, an architect of the United States of America’s Constitution and the Federalist papers, believed fervidly in “rule by the people.” As such, he structured the American government in a way that would supposedly prevent the consolidation of power by the President over the coming decades and centuries. Both Federalist Papers 10 and 51, […]
In a letter to John Cartright in 1824, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “[t]he Constitution … assert[s] that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” These words were penned at a time when power and security in […]
Americans and scholars such as Patricia Williams see racial oppression nearly everywhere evident in American society. Questions of who is responsible have been ongoing for decades even despite claims by Shelby Steele, for example, about institutionalized racism in America being a thing of the past. In recent years waves of increased violence with intolerance pitted […]
The United States’ (US) reputation and status within the international community has taken a beating over the past decade and a half. With many of Washington’s foreign policy ventures, “anti-Americanism” has burgeoned in many parts of the world, most dramatically in the Middle East, even in spite of increased discourse about American exceptionalism, particularly during […]
