Besides the human cost, the war has resulted in sanctions that have isolated Russia politically and created a refugee crisis, the authors said.
But it's worth looking both at how technologies that we now take as for granted as the air we breathe have both empowered us politically and created new traps.
The fact that the party so long assumed its social base has left it, now, with no idea of how to intervene politically to create political constituencies and alliances.
"It really was difficult to get the space to do anything politically and create some middle ground," she recalls.
If he did that, he would win politically and create a national consensus that would trump his opponents, right and left.
"It would be chaotic," Mr. Udall said on Monday as he praised the court ruling, even though it overturned a map he said would favor him politically by creating a stronger Democratic district.
The government and its international supporters should use the conference and later discussions on the new deal to commit, financially and politically, to create a more rights-abiding security force and a functional justice system".
"Politically, it creates a major obstacle to Trump and Congress' ongoing efforts to change or replace the law.
Obama may be successful in moving ahead politically by creating an image of being civil-rights-lite, but will communities of color reap the benefits as well?
