Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.