A leading principle of international relations theory is that the state’s highest priority is to ensure security. As Cold War strategist George F. Kennan formulated the standard view, government is created “to assure order and justice internally and to provide for the common defense.” Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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More than once I’ve been struck with the desire to abandon Facebook, and at least one of those times I actually deactivated my account. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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Joe Manchin’s daughter Heather was looking for a job. The now-senator and one-time governor of West Virginia was only a state level rep when he ran into Milan Pushkar—the head of Mylan Inc., a Fortune 500 pharmaceuticals company—at a West Virginia University basketball game. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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