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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Xavier Niel

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Yael Stone

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

Ziggy Marley

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

Lizzie Brochere

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

Mickey Kaus

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Stephen Kinzer

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

W. Edwards Deming

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Walter Wager

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Jan Schakowsky

Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network illustrate how the network is maintained, not through any central conspiracy, but by an interlocking network of academic r...

The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever "Christian" today happen to believe and p...

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

A telling example of what it has all come to can be found in the person of Rick Santorum, the junior Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Elected to the House in 1990 and then the Senate in 1994, Santorum, forty, is the apotheosis of the brash newer...

Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and when there are rules in place that assure you...

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never" [....

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national ...

Distraction

Today, as in Clark's day, the U.S Senate remains a club for millionaires. No longer checked by 'instructions' from state legislatures, senators are also more likely to serve for life than they were before passage of the amendment. 'It is as difficult...

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...

From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

When a physical illness or other adverse circumstance arises, humans tend to add to the problem by worrying and increasing the mental anxiety in their situation. Let’s take illness as an example. We have to face the fact that life is not always per...

Fearless Puppy on American Road

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...

The Best American Short Stories 2003

From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. P...

From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce compet...

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream