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The Paradox of Urban Migration in the Climate Change Era
The most vulnerable regions of the country are becoming more populous. How has federal policy expedited this phenomenon? And can bipartisan legislation improve urban sustainability before it’s too late?
Hustle and Honor
Whatever we do, we cannot continue our toxic relationship with labor, where work and identity coalesce into one grisly concept that reduces our humanity to a job title, a number of hours worked, and a salary.
Technology’s Possibilities and Pitfalls for Local Historical Societies
Many significant historical documents posted on the internet are stunningly ephemeral.
The Anatomy of the Perpetual Petrodollar Machine
Saudi oil politics, tenuous alliances in the Middle East, and the erosion of the Bretton Woods system firmly ensnared the United States in the trap of the petrodollar. Can the U.S. escape before the climate crisis worsens?
Brnovich: Voting Rights Rewritten
The United States thus finds itself in a somewhat circular predicament. The protection of voting rights depends on a body that is elected under voting procedures that increasingly curtail the access of minorities to the political process and whose institutional barriers prevent the majority of the voters from having their will heard.
Schooling and Status
Our education system has, in effect, reinforced America’s existing aristocracy.
Different Markets and New Solutions: Are Amateur Investors Spared from the Effects of HFT?
ransforming time from a continuous variable to a system where frequent auctions are held and processed with groups of orders would eliminate the millisecond race that High-frequency traders are after while spurring competition.
The Serendipity of Historical Societies
They are the product of a series of coincidences: a group of people simultaneously interested in history, that group’s competence in archiving, community members willing to donate their records.