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Nov 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Valerie Hudson
There’s a lot to digest in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s extraordinary comeback to regain the U.S. presidency. But while the election was still too close to call, I spent some time reflecting on how we can shore up our democracy, no matter the outcome of the race. The issues that came to mind were not the big ones — immigration and the economy. They weren’t even the most controversial —abortion and transgender rights.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Suzanne Powell |Valerie Hudson |Brigham Young
Keywordsoral histories, low-caste, India widows, ideological and social contextCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractI left on my field study with the goal of learning about the practice of widow abandonment by placing it within the larger social, political, and economic structure of Hindu India.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Mamela Fiallo Flor |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
The world is curious to know how Argentina’s wildcard president, Javier Milei, has fared after his first 100 days in power. The answer is a B+. If that doesn’t sound impressive, his predecessors should have been ranked D-. For the first time in over a decade Argentina achieved a budget surplus – at least in January and February. Inflation in February fell by 13 percent – although this is less impressive than it sounds, as last year it was 276 percent, the highest in the world.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Steven Tucker |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
If you’re white and you buy your children chocolate eggs to eat this Easter, aren't you training them to become infant white supremacists? This question is so incredibly stupid that it could only be posed by someone with a PhD. Sad to say, even chocolate has now been tarred with the brush of “white supremacism” – at least according to the Harvard African and African-American Studies (AAAS) module E119, “Chocolate, Culture and the Politics of Food”.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Louis March |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
The Energizer Bunny can’t hold a candle to Malcolm and Simone Collins. Who are they? Some of the world’s foremost pronatalists, two high-profile happy warriors for humanity. They’re the brains behind Pronatalist.org and should be familiar to Mercator readers:Malcolm and Simone Collins radiate powerful self-confidence.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Karl Stephan |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
The online platform TikTok is once again in the news, this time the target of proposed US legislation. One of the most popular and innovative social-media outlets, the Chinese-originated and Chinese-controlled app's infinite-scrolling videos have been imitated by Facebook and YouTube, and 170 million Americans use it, many of them under 30.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Craig Ortega |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
Last month’s shooting at the Kansas City Chief’s Super Bowl rally, in which one person was killed and 22 were wounded, involved two juveniles. They have since been charged with gun offences and resisting arrest. The two youths have not been identified. However, I can make an educated guess about their family dynamics – they probably came from a dysfunctional home.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson
Toronto City Council recently passed its 2024 budget after a lot of drama. The 2024 operating budget and the 2024-2033 capital budget reached C$17 billion and $49.8 billion respectively.This included a 9.5% property tax increase, the biggest increase in 25 years. For months, Toronto City Council struggled to fill in a projected $1.8 billion shortfall. The Toronto Region Board of Trade predicts a “fiscal chasm” of $36 billion over the next ten years, so we can expect more of the same.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Ben Terangi |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson |Michael Cook
While the media was busy taking Trump out of context to claim he called for a violent “bloodbath” if he loses November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris was on the campaign trail giving aid and comfort to the for-profit peddlers of a literal bloodbath. Last Thursday, President Biden’s wingwoman toured a Planned Parenthood clinic in St Paul, Minnesota — a visit the BBC boasted was a first for any US president or vice president.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson |Michael Cook
The Washington Post recently featured an article on the growing phenomenon of lawsuits against schools for failing to prevent the suicides of bullied students. Not only has the number of lawsuits been growing steadily, so have the settlement amounts, with a record of US $9.1 million. Even that is dwarfed by a recent $27 million settlement, not for a suicide, but for the death of a bullied student who was punched, fell, and hit his head on a concrete floor.
