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What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

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Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.

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The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.

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Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

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I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.

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If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

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Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.

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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 independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

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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 bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.

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The age of economic relations as the primary arena for interactions between states is already upon us.

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Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

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Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

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I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

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The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

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The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

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One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.

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In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.

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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

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Assad is not the greatest ally to have.

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Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

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There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

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It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

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A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

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If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

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As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.

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We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists.

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I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.

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Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that freely cross national borders.

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I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

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We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

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Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

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We are very proud, wherever we are in the world, to tell you about Canadian values and what we think is the right thing for Canada to do. And when it comes to refugees, we very much believe in welcoming refugees to our country, and that includes Syrian refugees, and that includes Muslim refugees.

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Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

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I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia.

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