Definitions of politics on the Web:

* social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power; "office politics is often counterproductive"
* the study of government of states and other political units
* the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
* the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
* the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government; "unemployment dominated the politics of the inter-war years"; "government agencies multiplied beyond the control of representative politics"
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* Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. ...
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* Aristotle's Politics (Greek Πολιτικά is a work of political philosophy. The declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise, or perhaps connected lectures, dealing with the "philosophy of human ...
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* Politics is the second of Ricky Gervais' stand-up shows. It was written and performed by the comedian Gervais. As the title suggests the show takes the political sphere as its central theme. Gervais toured the show in 2004 and it is now available on DVD.
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* Politics is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of his Essays: Second Series, published in 1844. A premier philosopher, poet and leader of American transcendentalism, he used this essay to belie his feelings on government, specifically American government. ...
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* "Politics" is a song written and recorded by American rock band Korn and The Matrix for Korn's seventh studio album, See You On The Other Side. ...
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* Politics is a 2003 novel by Adam Thirlwell about a father-daughter relationship and about a ménage à trois which includes said daughter and two of her friends. We are informed by the narrator that the novel is about "goodness".
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* Politics was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949.
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* Politics Magazine is a monthly political magazine covering the strategies, techniques, and personalities of modern American politics.
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* "Politics" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938. It was composed during the time of the Spanish Civil War as well as during the pre-war period of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Germany . ...
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* Politics is Sébastien Tellier's second album, released in 2004. It features prominent drumming provided by Tony Allen. The songs are sung in English, German and Spanish.

Macdonald had previously been editor at Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943, but after falling out with its publishers, quit to start Politics as a rival publication,[1] first on a monthly basis and then as a quarterly.

Politics published essays on politics and culture and included among its contributors James Agee, John Berryman, Bruno Bettelheim, Paul Goodman, C. Wright Mills, Mary McCarthy, Marianne Moore, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Hannah Arendt.

The journal reflected Macdonald’s interest in European culture. He introduced US readers to the thinking of the French philosopher Simone Weil, publishing "A Poem of Force", her reflections on the Iliad, and to Albert Camus. Another European, the Italian political and literary critic Nicola Chiaromonte, was also given space in the journal.

Politics was also Macdonald’s vehicle for his repeated and violent attacks against Henry Wallace and his Progressive Party campaign for President.[2]

In a letter to Philip Rahv at the end of December 1943, George Orwell mentioned that Macdonald had written asking him to contribute to his forthcoming journal.[3] Orwell had replied telling him he might "do something ‘cultural’" but not ‘political’ as he was already writing his "London Letters" to Partisan Review.

In his "As I Please" article for the 16 June 1944 issue of Tribune, George Orwell recommended Politics.[3] He stated that he disagreed with its policy but admired "its combination of highbrow political analysis with intelligent literary criticism." He went on to add that there were no monthly or quarterly magazines in England "to come up to" the American ones, of which there were several.

Macdonald, in an editorial comment for the November 1944 issue of Politics referred to a letter from Orwell which cast interesting light on the ‘russification’ of English political thought over the last two years.[3] Orwell had read the May issue’s review of Harold Laski’s Faith, Reason and Civilisation and mentioned that the Manchester Evening News, the evening edition of the Manchester Guardian, had refused to print his own review because of its anti-Stalin implications. Despite considering the book "pernicious tripe", Orwell had praised the author for being "aware that the USSR is the real dynamo of the Socialist movement in this country and everywhere else.", but criticized him for shutting his eyes to "purges, liquidations", etc. Macdonald pointed out that the fact that such a review should be considered "too hot" shows how much the feats of the Red Army had misled the English public opinion about Russia. He added that the "English liberal press had been far more honest about the Moscow Trials than our own liberal journals" and that Trotsky had been able to write in the Guardian.