The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
WEBApr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the …
Beyond Paper Genocide: Taíno Recognition in Puerto Rico
WEBFeb 17, 2022 · In 2018, a team from the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen managed to reconstruct the complete Taíno genome using an 8th to 10th century Taíno skeleton. The researchers were able to establish “clear similarities” between modern Puerto Ricans and Taíno genetic ancestry. Historians such as …
Doulas, Disparities, and Disentangling Maternal Mortality
WEBNov 20, 2019 · The United States is home to the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. In particular, African American women suffer the worst health outcomes in birthing and pregnancy. African American women are three to four times more likely to die during childbirth than non-Hispanic white women, experiencing 42.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 births compared to 13 per 100,000 births ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
WEBOct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance …
Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Progressive Policies
WEBOct 29, 2023 · Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Progressive Policies. In March 2023, after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law guaranteeing free school breakfast and lunch for all students, he was promptly swarmed by a group of excited Minnesotan children. In most states, this massive achievement (and its subsequent photo op) would be the high-water mark for ...
The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
WEBNov 15, 2019 · The comprehensive analyses refuting trickle-down theory are numerous. A recent study found that tax cuts for lower-income groups do tend to facilitate encouraging employment growth, but that tax cuts for the upper 10 percent have a muted effect on job creation. This reflects the basic flaw in the philosophy of supply-side economics as a viable approach to advantaging the lower classes, as this ...
A Parley for Parliament: Exploring System Change in Chile’s New ...
WEBDec 14, 2020 · Chilean pro-democracy activists once used the slogan “La alegria ya viene” [“Happiness is coming”] to protest against the brutal dictator Augosto Pinochet, who left office in 1990. Thirty years later, some say that happiness has come—but mostly for the wealthy elite. After a year of widespread, often violent, protests last month, the Chilean people voted overwhelmingly in favor of ...
Lessons of 2008: What the US Learned from the Great Recession
WEBNov 12, 2020 · The recent history of the world economy has been one scarred with recurring crises. The financial crisis of 2008 delivered a severe blow to the global economy, but it would be dwarfed in 2020 by the recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In both instances, economists largely agreed upon the urgency of substantive expansionary monetary and fiscal policy.
Religion, Politics, and Truth: An Interview with Simon Blackburn
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Simon Blackburn is one of the world’s leading academic philosophers. Over the course of his extensive career, Mr. Blackburn has taught at Oxford University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published countless books and essays on topics ranging from the philosophy of language to the nature of truth to atheism. Additionally, […]
Let Them Eat Cheese: How Vulnerable Populations Pay for the US …
WEBMay 28, 2018 · ne hundred feet underground, temperatures normally hover around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. In this man-made cave, however, it’s a cool 36. An elaborate system of pumps runs a steady stream of coolants from aboveground to protect the buried inventory. Thousands of red, orange, and yellow barrels line the floor like an industrial sunset, each oversized trashcan weighing 680 pounds and filled […]
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