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Mobility for work and education among young people has been a key feature of contemporary life. Drawing on focus groups with youth living in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as key informant interviews with people who work for community-based organizations that serve youth, I examine the relationship between young people's employment- and education-related geographical mobilities and precarity. I draw on recent insights from scholars examining precarity as grounded in both labouring conditions and ontological experience. In foregrounding the experiences and subjectivities of poor and working-class youth, I show how the structure of youth labour markets and of education and training cheapens youth labour, with implications for youth's capacity for independence. In a context of broader regimes of mobility associated with resource extraction, young people without formal qualifications live precarious lives: they move from job to job and place to place, and rely on family and friends to support their housing and other needs. In this context of uncertainty and labour market volatility, youth expressed disorientation regarding decisions about work, education, and mobility, reflecting the high stakes of not making the "right" choice, and developed a pragmatic approach to work as a way to make a living rather than a pathway to a meaningful life. I conclude by situating these findings as a critique not just of precarity but of capitalist economic arrangements more broadly, with implications for the kinds of solutions that can address structural class inequalities.

If we are to tackle the pressing problems of governance effectively in the new millennium, we need to reconsider the roles that heads of state could play in a form of politics suited to this new era. Such politics should be aimed at strengthening the trust that the citizenry places on those in public authority. To realize such politics, constitutional designers will need to continually shuttle between the levels of theory and practice. In this essay, the author attempts to construct an appropriate theoretical framework. In companion works, the author and his colleagues attempt to work within this framework in the development of reform proposals in particular regimes. A fiducial form of governance and politics will allow the restoration of a numinous space at the center of public life, but in the emerging state, this numinous space will have to be tightly constrained by norms of democratic legitimacy. The form of politics that will be required will not supplant the familiar partisan form that will continue to be preponderant in democratic regimes, but it will discipline this more familiar form. Some of the new semipresidential regimes are beginning to show ways in which this new form of governance might work. In particular, as leaders of this new dimension of democratic politics, heads of state could play a corrective role and could be supported in this activity by councils of state, heading up appropriately recognized monitory branches of governance. The emergence of a network of councils of state of this nature could open opportunities for more effective global governance.

Brzezinski discusses the Cold War; NATO expansion; US-Russian & EU/Western-Russian relations; the prospect of nuclear disarmament; criticisms of Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, & George W. Bush; advising the next US president regarding Iraq & Iran; 9/11; the Palestinian-Israeli peace process; the US media; the threat of Islamism as a false narrative; & the People's Republic of China. Adapted from the source document.