Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are dumb enough to take faith in a gentleman's agreement with us, that's your problem. NATO expanded to East Germany.

Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible men," as advocates of "manufacture of consent" have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.