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April 23, 2024
…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…
April 22, 2024
…South Africa, they will know how wrong apartheid is and that something must be done. At the time, BU was sponsoring a program to provide scholarships to black South African…
April 21, 2024
…choose.” When Gans did his study of television network news — at the time, there were only three half-hour network newscasts — he found little variety in story selection. With…
April 19, 2024
…shows us Banfield, himself a one-time New Dealer, reformulating his own world view based on what he learned first-hand. The Casa Grande story, as related by Banfield, is actually a…
April 18, 2024
…time that the federal government has more than tripled its spending on food assistance programs, the share of US households deemed “food insecure” has increased. Before spending even more money, we should…
April 18, 2024
…For instance, as David Leonhardt, a columnist at The New York Times, noted, “I think that my half of the political spectrum — the left half — often dismisses the importance…
April 17, 2024
…and a ballooning national debt. All it takes is a quick look at our deteriorating fiscal picture to realize this is no time to add billions in new spending. The…
April 11, 2024
…adapt, learn and innovate. By embracing the opportunities presented by AI while preparing for change, we can boost productivity and economic growth with AI and expand opportunities for workers at the same time….
April 11, 2024
…of thing that bleed away their time, according to Pew, from noninstructional work such as hallway monitoring or lunch duty (24 percent); helping students outside class time (22 percent); and…
April 11, 2024
…will choose to meet the moment at a time when too many public officials seem more interested in social media exposure than solving problems. We’re optimists. We think the right…