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14 Jul 2019, 8:58 pm
A century ago, Western civilization was still extensively using domesticated animals, specifically the horse, as one of the main means of transportation. [read post]
13 Jul 2019, 6:00 am
Geography and 19th-century technology thus contributed to assertions of presidential power in several ways. [read post]
6 Jul 2019, 1:32 pm
And in the process he privileges a narrative of greatness that is to some extent a full throated rejected of the revisionist narrative that had been developing form the 1990s among the intellectual and cultural production classes--underwritten by a business class imbued with the spirit of risk mitigation and compliance. [read post]
22 Jun 2019, 9:00 am
Second is underestimating the direct hit like what could go wrong and how things could go south, and you really got to … like you got to be an optimist, but you got to wear the pessimist glasses just to see the dark future so that you can avoid it, prevent it, mitigate it, and then put in the good stuff so you can create the bright future, so we have both of those roles at the same time. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 12:07 pm
.: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Drone Security: Enhancing Innovation and Mitigating Supply Chain Risks. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 8:12 am
” The UN recently published a report showing that human-caused climate change is worsening at an increasing rate and imploring world governments to act quickly to try to mitigate the effects. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 7:51 am
Here is a summary of my latest book: ‘This book explores links and synergies between international trade and two of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century: achieving sustainable energy (i.e., energy that is affordable, secure, and clean) and mitigating climate change. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 8:07 am
More than 20 years later, the 9th Circuit granted McKinney a conditional writ of habeas corpus, holding that Arizona courts had erred by failing to consider nonstatutory mitigating evidence in violation of Eddings v. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 7:20 am
Where migration does cause genuine problems, it is often possibly to address them by utilizing "keyhole solutions" that mitigate harm without restricting mobility. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 4:00 am
Climate change will injure the health, property, and life prospects of those who will live on this earth in coming centuries. [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 5:00 am
All this to say that the historic American commitment to Israel, manifesting itself in unparalleled backing, means the U.S. has a responsibility to mitigate the resulting asymmetric realities through fair efforts. [read post]
1 Jun 2019, 9:00 am
And they came up with these very broad definitions which have lasted for 150 years or more as embodied in the statutes that came in the 18th century and late 19th century. [read post]
27 May 2019, 12:36 am
Balazs was wondering if they have tools better suited to the task those axes and buckets were half a century before. [read post]
13 May 2019, 2:15 pm
王之涣 《登鹳雀楼》白日依山尽，黄河入海流。欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。On The Stork TowerBy Wang ZhihuanThe sun beyond the mountains glows;The Yellow River seawards flows.You can enjoy a grander sight，By climbing to a greater height.WGE is examining the proceedings at the 2nd BRI Conference recently … [read post]
13 May 2019, 5:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Dado, Le Cycliste (1955, Centre Pompidou))The Working Group on Empire (WGE) of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics looks to to study and theorize the construction of systems of management and control of human activities, that is of empire in the 21st century. [read post]
6 May 2019, 6:30 am
Such reforms would bring the Senate closer (albeit only modestly) to the one-person-one-vote norm without disturbing the two-senators-per-state rule.For a variety of reasons, recent presidents have wielded the veto—a tool Levinson describes as “very anti-democratic”—significantly lessoften than their twentieth-century predecessors: fewer than two times per year since the turn of the millennium. [read post]
5 May 2019, 1:13 pm
The hoarding of gold and silver has been tried, for centuries. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 4:40 pm
While these issues are complex, the public and international debate over this issue suggests a secure supply chain will prove to be the 21st century’s most elusive luxury good. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 12:28 pm
Second, mitigation is impossible. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:39 pm
Almost all states’ current tax codes are the result of an epochal shift in state taxation beginning about a century ago, when states scrapped their statewide property taxes and began to replace the collections with income and sales taxes. [read post]
