The pluralities of nature and politics, order and freedom, past and future, are not as intoxicating as the totalitarian utopias of the last century.
Perhaps sensing trouble — Mr. Lubenow was, he now says, a "rabble-rouser and liberal" — his boss laid out the ground rules: "No politics," he ordered.
— Representative Vito J. Fossella, the one-time boy wonder of Staten Island politics, was ordered on Monday to serve five days in a Virginia jail cell after being found guilty of drunken driving in a case that upended his career.
In 1968, Nixon spoke the coded language of states' rights and law-and-order politics in order to heighten the fears of white voters in the South, who felt diminished and disempowered by the civil-rights movement and by the Democrat in the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Philip's decisive victory was crucial in ordering politics in both England and France.
It has criminal statutes so broad that basically everyone is a lawbreaker, and selective prosecution has become a mechanism for ordering our politics.
For those on the left, and the patrician right, who are in the business of politics in order to tell the rest of us what to do, this truly is an existential challenge.
I did not give my life to politics in order to say that I was a part of the generation that succeeded in cutting trade tariffs on the import of processed coffee to 27.3%.
I suspect there is a broad consensus for saying no! to the corrupting influence of money in politics, in order to say yes to healthier democracy.
Here's my compilation of the ten best books about politics from 2012, ordered by date of publication.
