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With US conservative media putting out a steady stream of racial innuendo, the GOP’s discourse was thoroughly debased well before candidate Trump, himself a media player, came along.
The impact in Japan, and across Asia, of Trump’s vision of a nuclear-armed Japan is a striking example of how his muddled jingoism can unsettle political discourse.
Such measures have also deeply affected, and in some cases transformed, public discourse for the better.
In the policy jargon increasingly heard in today’s political discourse, tax reform will be “revenue neutral” – meaning that it will not worsen the budget deficit or drive up the national debt.
The apoplectic rage that followed the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama’s health-care legislation is becoming routine in America’s public discourse, and it is a bipartisan malady.
Of course, this is not the first time that anger and fear have ruled US public discourse: Father Charles Coughlin’s toxic radio broadcasts in the 1930’s paved the way for today’s stars, who would feel similarly at home during the Red Scare of the 1920’s or the McCarthy era in the early 1950’s.
While the idea of placing the highest priority on the interests of one’s own country is not in itself unreasonable, Trump’s particular discourse echoes the calls issued by isolationist, anti-Semitic groups prior to World War II for the US to appease Hitler.
These are controversial questions, and we often try to avoid addressing them in public discourse.
How the West Was LostBRUSSELS – Recent political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic has raised a disturbing question that is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss: Are the United States and Europe turning away from the policies of openness that have historically driven their economic success?
At least since 1970, Germany has taken a comprehensive and credible approach to atoning for its Nazi past, fully acknowledging its horrors in school curricula, graphically commemorating them in museums, monuments, and ceremonies, and employing official discourse that has been unfailingly contrite.
For years, the Israeli discourse has been that a true peace with the Arab world would be possible only when the region embraced democracy.
Nor is Egypt’s political discourse likely to be especially palatable to Israelis.
To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.
As is often the case with nationalism – irrespective of its dress – the emotional discourse that surrounds calls for independence is merely a mask for naked political ambition and economic self-interest.
Love the Bank, Hate the BankerNEW DELHI – Public discourse is rarely nuanced.
It is probably not a coincidence that similar rhetoric has long been prominent in business and political discourse in Western Europe, where incumbent employees and firms enjoy greater protection than in the US.
Waves of discourse followed, helping Western women see what was “not enough” in many aspects of their lives, such as the low-paying jobs in which men took credit for their work – and pinched their bottoms.
In developing and emerging economies, one charitable explanation for the poor quality of public discourse about income inequality is that data on income distribution are often unavailable or dubious.
Another new term, "zhi qing quan" (right to know), has also entered public discourse.
But populist discourse elides – and often confounds – the substantive distinctions between two concepts: globalization and globalism.
Frozen states include Saudi Arabia, where “democracy” is omitted from official discourse, even limited partial elections have been put on hold, and the royal succession remains a secret kept from the population.
In fact, the language of natural rights - advanced most emphatically in 18 th century America - continues to shape our moral discourse.
The debate about the EU is too ingrained in British discourse.
Only non-democratic regimes use such means, rather than relying on public discourse, historical clarification, diplomatic contacts, and education.
Even in a more homogeneous country like China, the absence of open public discourse does the opposite, as evidenced by the state’s mishandling of ethnic unrest among Tibetans and Uighurs.
The two men intend to seize the opportunity presented by the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, which demonstrated that, in today’s EU, illiberal democrats’ preferred mode of discourse – lies and smears – can be politically and professionally rewarding (just ask the UK’s new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, a leading Brexiteer).
The reformist-dominated Majles that served from 2000-2004 comprised allies of Khatami who sought to expand the realm of acceptable political discourse, champion democracy and human rights, and advocate a more conciliatory approach to foreign policy.
They both believe that democracy must come sooner or later, but Putin’s emphasis is very much on later, whereas Medvedev has added a liberalizing voice to Russia’s public discourse.
Where can and should religion and ethics contribute to our political discourse?
To their credit, many of the project’s opponents have avoided the crass bigotry that is becoming a standard trait of right-wing discourse in the United States.
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