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• Who made you an expert? Is America's distrust of 'elites' becoming more toxic?
• McCain’s mutiny against war bitterness
• The Kremlin pushes pension reform, but the Russian public pushes back

Who made you an expert? Is America's distrust of 'elites' becoming more toxic? Posted: 27 Aug 2018 02:19 PM PDT It often stands hand-in-hand with a reciprocal tradition of heroism for the self-made man who, armed with instinct, self-reliance, and force of will, forgoes the Ivy towers and makes a fortune through a more native creativity, unrestrained and unadulterated. "I think it's almost baked into the American character," says Wendy Rahn, a professor of political science the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, noting that historians have long traced a mindset of social egalitarianism that distinguished Americans from European distinctions based on birth and class.

McCain’s mutiny against war bitterness Posted: 27 Aug 2018 12:39 PM PDT To those who spent time with John McCain, his qualities of character are what will be remembered most. For his military service and as a prisoner of war from 1967 to 1973, he will always be viewed by Americans as heroic. Despite the years of torture that he suffered as a POW in a Hanoi jail, Mr. McCain decided not to be bound by bitterness but to forgive.

The Kremlin pushes pension reform, but the Russian public pushes back Posted: 27 Aug 2018 12:26 PM PDT It is potentially the biggest political challenge for the Kremlin since 2005. It is probably the memory of those protests that has kept Russia from considering raising its pension ages for more than a dozen years. A law working its way through the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, would significantly raise the pension age for retiring Russians as early as next Jan. 1.

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