分类目录归档：politics
So this is James Risen.
You may know him as the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
for The New York Times.
Long before anybody knew Edward Snowden's name,
Risen wrote a book in which he famously exposed
The conventional wisdom about our world today
is that this is a time of terrible decline.
And that's not surprising, given the bad news all around us,
from ISIS to inequality,
political dysfunction, c
Caitlin Quattromani: The election of 2016 felt different.
Political conversations with our family and friends
uncovered a level of polarization
that many of us had not previously experienced.
People w
Twenty years ago,
my family introduced a system called "Friday Democracy Meetings."
Every Friday at 7pm, my family came together for an official meeting
to discuss the current family affairs.
These me
Now, this is Joanna.
Joanna works at a university in Poland.
And one Saturday morning at 3am,
she got up, packed her rucksack
and traveled more than a thousand kilometers,
only to have a political arg
Transcriber:
Everything I need to know about politics,
I learned from cheese.
For the last decade of my business career,
I ran a 250-million-dollar food company in Wisconsin.
And yes, we made cheese.
in the 17th century a woman named
Juliana to fauna had a very successful
perfume business for over 50 years she
ran it it sort of ended abruptly when
she was executed for murdering 600 men
she it wasn
If you've watched the news or followed politics
chances are you've heard the term Orwellian
thrown around in one context or another.
But have you ever stopped to think about what it really means,
or
On January 1, 1863,
Abraham Lincoln legally changed the status of over 3 million enslaved blacks
across ten states from slave to free.
His Emancipation Proclamation wasn't a law,
or a presidential de
In 2013, a team of researchers held a math test.
The exam was administered to over 1,100 American adults,
and designed, in part, to test their ability to evaluate sets of data.
Hidden among these m