Because the Republicans concentrated on personality while the Democrats stressed policy, the talking heads, who always go with whatever is most recent, might have found time to talk about what the candidates, if elected, might actually do.
It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time for him to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his "friend" rather than stressing policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed, troubled but still human young black men in America out of prison.
Mr. Loury writes: "It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time for him to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his 'friend' rather than stressing policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed, troubled but still human young black men in America out of prison".
"This is the defining issue of our time," Mr. Obama said in a speech in Florida this week, stressing policy initiatives that would make the rules of the game more "fair" to those being left behind in what he described as a rich-get-richer economy.
(I should stress policy, since individuals under stress shall always act in divergent ways, whether wonderful or loathsome or something in between).
In the letter Winsor stresses the policy of "institutionalising belief" was strictly about the recording of an allegation.
Even with its idiosyncrasies and current stresses, American policy debate has offered the world valuable tools in argumentation theory and various frames and formats for thinking about rhetoric and argument.
We stress important policy implications, namely that in the presence of complementarity between energy and capital inputs, policy measures to reduce energy-use should not aim at introducing energy price increases.
How should governments adjust to an epic demographic shift that will stress fiscal policy?
