Thorstein Veblen, for example, was a 19th-century economist and sociologist best known for coining the term “conspicuous consumption” in his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). Conspicuous consumption is a means to show one's social status, especially when publicly displayed goods ...
Pros and Cons at a Glance PROSCONS Pro 1: The Electoral College ensures that all parts of the country are involved in selecting the president of the United States.Read More.Con 1: The Electoral College gives too much power to swing states and allows the presidential election to be decided ...
In 2016 the federal government announced it would phase out the use of private prisons, but this policy was rescinded by PresidentDonald Trumpand then reinstated by PresidentJoe Biden. In accordance with the latter’s executive order on “Reforming Our Incarceration Systems to Eliminate the Use of...
Closer to home, the United States elected populist Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016. In 2018, President Trump declared at a Texas rally that he was a nationalist, though many felt that was already evident from his protectionist policies. He and his former advisor Steve Bannon had often...