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The United States of America has been the most exceptional thing ever to happen to hum ...ly committed a higher ratio of good deeds to crimes than any ten other top nations in the history of the world. Just look at how little-hated it is! But you f

...mous US defense spending which created the [[Pax Americana]] allowed other nations to spend less on military and more on education and development. | show=}} ...e why the United States has spent so much more money than any twenty other nations on defense. He deems it a mark of shame, but it has been a burden that larg

...ntury when a spate of lead-poisoning cases in children occurred across the United States. The symptoms—vomiting, convulsions, bleeding gums, palsied limbs, In 1922, the League of Nations proposed a worldwide lead paint ban, but at the time, the US was the larges

...Warming |global warming denialism]], the [[Tea Party]] and the Citizen’s United ruling all are in the economic interests of (and have been influenced by) t ...t industry, digging up vast landscapes in Alberta Canada occupied by First Nations and turning them into toxic wastelands while churning out deadly emissions.

...erican kids are not as serious about their studies as their peers in other nations, the schools must be to blame. At last we have the culprit on which we can ...t of children in Finland live in poverty, as compared to 20 percent in the United States. Those who insist that poverty doesn’t matter, that only teachers

...ide scale. Much of that is due to the Pax Americana, especially the United Nations. Which is strongly opposed by libertarians because of their isolationist vi ...ay to those skeptical of your argument for the positive role of the United Nations in the Pax Americana?

For the first time in decades, the United States saw a steady dismantling of the laws, regulations, programs and prac ...ier to come after our other rights,” says Mike Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers. “Everything we care about is at stake, from the r

As the United States slides toward the twenty-first century, the major mass movements cha ... Adjutant General" of the armed militias that have formed cells across the United States. Operating out of the American Justice Federation of Indianapolis, T

In fact, of all Western nations ranked by the scale of GDP collapse from 1929 onwards during the contractio ... Amaral and MacGee (2002: 50, citing Amaral and MacGee 2001) show that the United States used public works programs much more heavily than Canada did. About

...ent could not import more of the bank notes then in use, because of United Nations sanctions, so Mr. Hussein ordered the local printing of a new currency. In ...ainst the dollar. In fall 2002, as it became more and more likely that the United States would invade, the Swiss dinar became more and more valuable.

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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations. The granddaddy of them all. Smith’s style can wear on modern readers, an Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States. The side of American history you usually don’t get in the textboo

...ty ownership. These are the most commonly used types of definitions in the United States. Examples of such definitions include: ...ys some leeway in the application of these definitions. For example in the United States we have had a federal minimum wage for over 50 years which means tha

beyond the circles of the wealthiest nations and social groups. (Benkler, Wealth of ...taken as an ur-text for modern conservatism, Adam Smith’s 1776 Wealth of Nations (although as many have pointed out a close reading of that text makes it ha

...ats to Internet Freedom: Taxes, Regulations, and any attempt by the United Nations to manage the Internet.”

...versity of Chicago and made sure the book ended up in every library in the United States. ...ockefeller Foundation. In fact, for the first years of Mises's life in the United States, before his appointment as a visiting professor in the Graduate Scho

...e whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Courts have interpre ...ic law is commonly interpreted as prohibiting it). State usury laws in the United States and Islamic banks in some countries are

... was not to be one of them. “It was the first time I had set foot in the United States,” he recalls in the introduction, “and it felt good to have my w ...ez, a French-born economist at Berkeley, examined income inequality in the United States between 1913 and 1998. It detailed how the share of U.S. national in

The first chart is a simple one, and it concerns the United States alone. It tracks the share of over-all income taken by the top ten p ...of income generated by work, Piketty notes, the level of inequality in the United States is “probably higher than in any other society at any time in the p

...ies that built a welfare state, to housebreak but not supplant capitalism. Nations that celebrated Marx, meanwhile, were economic failures that repressed thei After that war, the victorious nations tried to restore the trinity of free trade, the gold standard, and unprotec