The number of shootings with casualties increased from 11 in 2009 to 188 during the 2021-22 school year, according to the report, which was based on data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. The repor
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Progressive Reformers: The Progressive Era was a reaction to the growth of big business and drastic inequality in American society during the Gilded Age. Progressive Reformers called for an expansive federal government that regulated private industry to protect the general welfare. ...
Stonelake was laid off in January 2024 while on medical leave—now, she’s suing the company over what she alleges is a “toxic pattern” of silencing women. In a lawsuit filed in the state of Washington, she claims that Meta neglected to act aft...
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by The City. Most people in the world have probably seen the famous photograph of the Earth taken from the Apollo 17 mission on December 7, 1972. Spanning a swath of the globe from the Mediterranean Sea to...
However, the compa- nies built resilience by adaptation to the situation as well as possible. Their ability to build resilience was found to be partly rooted in the local culture. At the time of cri- sis, the companies combined jugaad—a regional cultural practice—with a Western mindset and...
America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other. Jeanne de ClissonWhen her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France. Sor Juana Inés de La CruzThis brilliant poet rose from illegitimacy and poverty...
May Day — a legal holiday for workers in most countries — was born in Chicago. On May 1, 1886, workers shut down America’s greatest industry city, and other cities too, to demand the 8-hour workday. In 1894, the U.S. Congress intentionally created a Labor Day ...
When he affiliated with the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago, Park was brought to teach a course on the social survey. “The City” was to be the academic expression of his point of view on the topic. Park's biographical encounters with some active promoters of the social ...
political shifts have come more suddenly and powerfully than anyone could have imagined in Italy, Japan and Canada (where the ruling Progressive Conservative Party was obliterated in a single election, falling from 153 seats in the House of Commons to just two.) In Russia, the power of anxiety...