“Everybody in America, and thus everybody in the world, is watching what happens on Long Island,” Johnson said. D’Esposito is one of five first-term Republicans in New York whom Democrats hope to unseat — reclaiming the speaker’s gavel after the same races helped cost them contro...
which had yet to be born at that time: He was taking about the Northern Expedition under the command of Chiang Kai-shek as he crushed the warlord forces of northern China.
These are long-term trends that began decades ago, says David Autor, an MIT economist who has studied “job polarization”—the disappearance of middle-skill jobs even as demand increases for low-paying manual work on the one hand and highly skilled work on the other. This “hollowing out”...
In some respects, the bimbo hasn’t changed much since the naissance of the term in the early 20th century, when it was used to describe both men and women with diminished intellectual capacities. (The male equivalents, “himbo” and “mimbo,” wouldn’t come to being in the lexicon until...
Barr, the chair of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy, has touted a free-market capitalism philosophy, arguing that he is someone who “can build a bridge between those traditional Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street Republicans, and the America First populists who elected...
These are long-term trends that began decades ago, says David Autor, an MIT economist who has studied “job polarization”—the disappearance of middle-skill jobs even as demand increases for low-paying manual work on the one hand and highly skilled work on the other. This “hollowing out”...
Books and Arts; Book Review;Rehabilitating capitalism 文艺;书评;振兴资本主义 For those who have lost faith 只为重建信心 Why Capitalism? By Allan Meltzer. 《为何是资本主义?》作者:Allan Meltzer A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity. By Luigi Zingales. 《...
(Japan is a very different story. ) In each case investors-mainly, but not entirely, foreign banks who had made short-term loans -- all tried to pull their money out at the same time. The result was a combined banking and currency crisis: a banking crisis because no bank can convert ...
Rather than asking if today’s hunter is truly a conservationist, perhaps the more appropriate question to ask is whether the term “hunter conservationist” even exists? Certainly, someone can be a hunter and someone can be a conservationist; and Roosevelt has proven it possible to be both, ...
For the definition of the term ‘erotic novel’ we followed a bottom-up approach. This has the advantage that the participants of our study could neither orient themselves towards a definition given by us––a definition that would not necessarily be in accord with the views of non-professional...