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No institutional solution is purely neutral in its effects on relative incomes – and it is relative income and wealth around which political debate typically revolves.
Economists at the World Bank have contributed a few straw men of their own to the education debate.
In the second presidential debate, George W. Bush was asked what how he would use America's global power and influence.
The result has been an escalating political and humanitarian crisis – and increasingly heated debate about how to address it.
In Europe, the debate is characterized by dissent and division, exemplified by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the European Union – an outcome that was shaped largely by overblown fears about immigration.
In the Middle East, the refugee debate is not nearly as loud, but it is no less passionate.
How to Target IraqIn the current debate about policy towards Iraq, two extreme alternatives are usually presented: either extend the military campaign against terrorism to Iraq, or maintain the current uneasy status quo with that country.
Yet, at the same time, Russia has repeatedly called for a new debate on conventional arms control in Europe.
So he has no right to claim, as he has, “a stunning victory” in “an epic intellectual debate.”
Words like “cockroach,” “delusional,” “derp,” “dope,” “fool,” “knave,” “mendacious idiot,” and “zombie” have no place in civilized debate.
The Alliance can and should be the place to discuss and debate a broader range of political issues.
Everywhere debate is focused on the best way to combat this form of terrorism and on the importance, in this context, of the Greater Middle East initiative that the United States wants the G8 and NATO to approve in June.
That is why the current French debate on the headscarf is so important, for it concerns the rights of Muslim women in European societies and the protection of diversity.
Just how fiscally constrained these countries are remains subject to debate.
The most recent analogy in the UK is the Suez Crisis of 1956, which turned into a debate about postwar Britain’s role in the world and the extent of its dependence on American goodwill.
In the nineteenth century, there was an intense debate over free trade in grain, which culminated in Prime Minister Robert Peel’s repeal of the Corn Laws.
The contemporary debate is similar.
As South Africa’s politicians and media debate the causes of this crisis, they often focus on climate change – a culprit that cannot talk back.
Opening up the debate about what peace could look like would help.
Old men (like us) dominate public debate, and we strongly urge Cyprus’s leaders to make more space for those whose voices are not so readily heard.
But, unfortunately, the Brexit debate tends to bring out EU elites’ worst instincts, not least because it encourages them to fight for the status quo, rather than for reform and innovation.
To be sure, many observers have poked fun at Macron for refusing to commit himself to one side in any debate.
Unfortunately, because Obama himself has established a history of making concessions in the face of congressional brinkmanship, the debt-ceiling debate has morphed into more than just a short-term political fight.
Rather, the debt-ceiling debate is about the size and reach of government.
Japan’s Fukushima disaster has generated a massive debate about the safety of nuclear power, but not about nuclear weapons.
To be effective, elections must be preceded by an extensive period of debate and argument.
First elections, in particular, are almost inevitably of limited value as foundations of democracy, because they take place in an emotionally charged atmosphere and largely without substantive debate.
One must add to this criterion a culture of debate that makes elections a genuine contest of a plurality of answers to the issues at stake.
More recent research is piled toward the top of the pyramid, where most public debate takes place.
Although such ideas have received a somewhat mixed reception, they are a welcome sign of much-needed public debate.
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