One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist mode... -Chrystia Freeland

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

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Canadian politician and journalist, currently serving as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada.

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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became...
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democra...
Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorship...
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values....
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea....
I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact...
When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an...
When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on W...
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship....
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the...

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The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists....
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no mat...
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad g...
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation....
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their bas...
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government....
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?...
We've listened to our businesses, and we know they want more tools online so they can do business faster - with less interaction with government....
I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings...
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of ...