U.S. politics

U.S. politics

Political terms used in U.S. involving the three main branches of government as well as grass root politics.

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Global warming

Politics; U.S. politics

An increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect supposedly resulting from pollution

Watergate

Politics; U.S. politics

An illegal break-in, by Republican campaign employees, at Democratic party national headquarters in Washington, D.C. during the 1972 presidential campaign.

Conspiracy

Politics; U.S. politics

An evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons.

Budget

Politics; U.S. politics

An itemised estimate of expected income and expense and a plan of operation based on such an estimate.

Tree-hugger

Politics; U.S. politics

An environmental extremist who supports the restriction of logging.

Politically correct

Politics; U.S. politics

A speech code designed to limit free speech, conforming to a belief that language and practises which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated. ...

Teabagger

Politics; U.S. politics

A slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth of a sexual partner. Some members of the mainstream media made crude, vulgar jokes about the Tea Party movement, calling the ...