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 ...
In 2016, the United Kingdom voted in favor of Brexit, the British exit from the EU.1 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 ...
The debate over the continued use of theElectoral Collegeresurfaced during the2016 presidential election, whenDonald Trumplost the general election toHillary Clintonby more than 2.8 million votes but won 30 states and the Electoral College and therefore the presidency. The official general election res...
459 federal inmates were being held in private facilities. However, on January 20, 2025, on day one of Trump’s second term as president, Trump rescinded Biden’s ban on federal contracts with private prisons in an executive order titledInitial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and ...