Word after "office" or "playing"

• Risky dinner party topic
• The profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
• Art of government
• The study of government of states and other political units
• Science of "how who gets what"
• The opinion you hold with respect to political questions

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "science of government," from politic (adj.), modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state," the name of his book on governing and governments, which was in English mid-15c. as "Polettiques." Also see -ics .Politicks is the science of good ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
politics was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949. 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, first on ...