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The Serendipity of Historical Societies
They are the product of a series of coincidences: a group of people simultaneously interested in history, that group’s competence in archiving, community members willing to donate their records.
The Language of Climate Change
limate change conversation, with its exaggerated focus on science and sensationalism, alienates the average person. As time runs out on ensuring a livable future, a critical re-evaluation of how environmental ideas are shared is in order.
Harvesting the Power of the American Farm to Combat Climate Change: A Reimagined Role for FDR’s New Deal
Could federal efforts to decarbonize the agricultural sector turn the tide by appealing to environmental advocates on both sides of the political spectrum?
Reform and Scrutiny: How Politicians and Regulators can Collaborate to Decrease HFT’s Volatility
In addition to paying close attention to the behavior of High-Frequency Traders, politicians must coordinate bipartisan, large-scale responses to economic crises in order to properly recover and diminish the harm that comes from the next one.
On Police Power
The guilty verdict found in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial marks only the second murder conviction of a Minnesota officer in the state’s over 150-year history, and the first time a white officer has been found guilty of killing an African American.
All History is Local
It answers the questions that come to mind when we’re walking down a nearby street, but that we quickly accept are too difficult to answer.
Punctilious Piracy: How The Rich Avoid Taxes
A combination of legislative obsolescence, financial sleight-of-hand, and philanthropic deceit are the smoke and mirrors behind which the richest Americans shirk their legal, and arguably moral, responsibility.