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on gender, knowledge and scientific careers: an interview with londa

Londa Schiebinger: Biological determinism, the notion that by nature women are incapable of doing great science, arose in the eighteenth century as an integral part of the new democratic orders in the US and France, and the rise of modern science. ..

chicago boyz » rhetoric

-Trump didn’t use the IRS to harass his political opponents – as Nixon threatened to do, as the Clintons did to right-wing activist organizations, and as Obama did to organizations and individuals who were active in the Tea Party movement. . -Trump didn’t use the FBI and CIA to spy on his..

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steve vladeck: why does the supreme court have nine justices? and why

On this, the act's sesquicentennial, it's worth reflecting on how we ended up with nine justices — and why recent proposals that Democrats should expand the size of the court when that party is next in control of both chambers of Congress and White House are dangerously myopic.. ..

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abortion in america: how it became a partisan issue

The shift to opposing abortion rights was part of effort to paint Republican Party according to Greenhouse and Siegel.. ... During her 2016 presidential run, Hillary Clinton called for repeal of Hyde, and Democratic Party platform followed suit, something that would have been..

reckoning with failure in the war on terror

In its obsession with Moscow's supposed meddling, Democratic Party elite rehabilitated Bush-era neoconservatives, welcoming PNAC William Kristol and 'axis of David Frum into the ranks of the so-called 'resistance, .. By forging formal working partnership with the, The Center for..

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