Risky dinner party topic

• Part of the office rat race
• Science of "how who gets what"
• Word after "office" or "playing"
• Controversial subject

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle , a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts ...

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 ...