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Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
The story of the first woman senator from Massachusetts, a modern-day feminist icon who reminds us to be outspoken, to resist, and--most importantly--to persist.
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Warren tears up as the crowd roars for her at DNC
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) received a hero’s welcome at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22.
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A fighting chance
Elizabeth Warren tells the story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works and really doesn't.
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Expression unleashed: The evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication
Human expression is open-ended, versatile, and diverse, ranging from ordinary language use to painting, from exaggerated displays of affection to micro-movements that aid coordination. Here we present and defend the claim that this expressive diversity is united by an interrelated suite of cognitive capacities, the evolved functions of which are the expression and recognition of informative intentions. We describe how evolutionary dynamics normally leash communication to narrow domains of statistical mutual benefit, and how expression is unleashed in humans. The relevant cognitive capacities are cognitive adaptations to living in a partner choice social ecology; and they are, correspondingly, part of the ordinarily developing human cognitive phenotype, emerging early and reliably in ontogeny. In other words, we identify distinctive features of our species' social ecology to explain how and why humans, and only humans, evolved the cognitive capacities that, in turn, lead to massive diversity and open-endedness in means and modes of expression. Language use is but one of these modes of expression, albeit one of manifestly high importance. We make cross-species comparisons, describe how the relevant cognitive capacities can evolve in a gradual manner, and survey how unleashed expression facilitates not only language use, but also novel behaviour in many other domains too, focusing on the examples of joint action, teaching, punishment, and art, all of which are ubiquitous in human societies but relatively rare in other species. Much of this diversity derives from graded aspects of human expression, which can be used to satisfy informative intentions in creative and new ways. We aim to help reorient cognitive pragmatics, as a phenomenon that is not a supplement to linguistic communication and on the periphery of language science, but rather the foundation of the many of the most distinctive features of human behaviour, society, and culture.
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The U.S. Insulin Crisis — Rationing a Lifesaving Medication Discovered in the 1920s
The members of the team that discovered insulin sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each because they felt that the drug belonged to the public. Nearly 100 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of its high cost.
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Donald Trump: a political determinant of covid-19
He downplayed the risk and delayed action, costing countless avertable deaths
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Political interference in public health science during covid-19
Populist leaders like Trump, Bolsonaro, Modi, and Johnson view scientists as their opponents
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Power, Predistribution, and Social Justice
The idea of predistribution has the potential to offer a valuable and distinctive approach to political philosophers, political scientists, and economists, in thinking about social justice and the creation of more egalitarian economies. It is also an idea that has drawn the interest of politicians of the left and centre-left, promising an alternative to traditional forms of social democracy. But the idea of predistribution is not well understood, and stands in need of elucidation. This article explores ways of drawing the conceptual and normative distinction between predistribution and redistribution, examining those general categories when considering the roles of public services and fiscal transfers, and looking at the ways in which government policies can empower and disempower different individuals and groups within the economy. This article argues that the most initially plausible and common-sensical ways of drawing the distinction between predistributive and redistributive public policies collapse when put under analytical pressure. It concludes that the distinction between predistribution and redistribution is best seen in terms of the aims or effects of policies rather than a deeper division of policy types, and argues that, once seen in those terms, predistribution is a central concern of social justice.
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Rethinking Budgeting: Shifting from Allocation to Aspiration
Or that summer training program that will certify you in another line of work? If you are about to graduate and planning to relocate, is renting a shared teaching studio a better deal than finding a home from which you can teach? Two recent reports from Harvard University show the price to own a home reached a 50-year high relative to income (Hermann and Whitney 2024), while more than half of U.S. renters are cost-burdened-one-quarter spends more than 50% of their income on housing alone (Harvard University 2024). Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. https://www.jchs. harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratioreaches-record-high-0.
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Graham says U.S. needs regulatory system similar to Europe
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) says he is working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to create a tech regulatory regime “with teeth” that would be similar to the system in Europe, where policymakers have sought to aggressively regulate American tech giants.
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