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Georgia, a NATO and European Union aspirant, is touting a new strategic partnership with China, prompting concerns the alliance will strain Tbilisi's long-standing Western partnerships. Georgia signed a strategic partnership agreement with China following an official visit to Beijing last month by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. The partnership carries with it the potential of…

But it was a civic idea of happiness, a civic idea. that, in fact, it was in our mutual self-interest to be about the common interest. and i think if you look back, to go directly to your question, if you look back at moments that we want to emulate and that we tend to commemorate, you find that these were moments where people were willing to change their minds if the fact s warranted i. so you have a dwight eisenhower in 1953 saying, i'm not going to rip up the new deal, it's part of the fabric of the country. that sets up an amazing run of prosperity, it helps set up the work of the civil ri...

Necessity. the idea that we would reach out and help somebody else is in our self-interest. and that's one of the fundamental elements of a republican, lower-case "r" government, is that i pay taxes for you today, you pay them for me tomorrow. we make, what jefferson called, mutual concessions of opinion. because i may need you tomorrow. winston churchill always refused to carry lifelong grudges as a parliamenttarian, because this morning's enemy might be this afternoon's ally. that's fundamental in the life of a republic, which is what was established today in philadelphia in 1776, was this i...

Impression of anthony, which was he had the benefit of going out on the road and making people laugh and i had -- you know, i had given up. i had relegated my mom. in essence, once a mom, always a mom. but i had these distorted perceptions of what it was like for anthony. i don't think he had any idea of what it was like for me to deal with brittany's sickness and her eventual passing on. he had no idea until the book was written, believe it or not. >> yeah. because i did not know that she contemplated suicide. that was totally different. when i read the book, i was like, wow. >> and a lot of ...

Inequality around the world. and i'm not being like a dr. pangloss. i understand. you can pick any century is replete with horrors, any millennium. clearly, there's a lot of awful things in the world. but equally, there are a lot of good things in the world. and those forces underlay all of these other historical and cultural forces. in essence, my argument is that the arc of our evolution is gone, but it bends towards goodness. >> professor, this is willie geist, this is such a good and important book. i can't wait to get through it. i want to ask you about the current mechanisms of which we ...