Breaking with Trump, Jacobson continued,
was clearly a greater sin in the eyes of most ordinary Republicans than anything Trump had done to subvert democracy or incite the Capitol mob.
The drop in Republican support for McConnell was
a telling sign of Trump’s continuing ascendancy among Republican identifiers and a clear warning to any Republican leader who might want to marginalize the ex-president.
Lerone Martin, a professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis, has a different but complementary take on the McConnell-Trump confrontation. McConnell, Martin argues, has boxed himself in:
McConnell finds himself in the position of Dr. Victor Frankenstein: the very entity that McConnell has helped to create, piece and hold together during the Trump presidency so-called “governing” Republicans one the one hand, and the QAnon/white Christian nationalists conspiracy theorists on the other may prove to lead to his political destruction and downfall.
Sheppard Mullin Announces 2021 Partner Class
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that 13 attorneys have been promoted to partner. The 2021 Partner Class includes Daniel Belzer (Century City), Vinay Bhupathy (Century City), Matt Bonovich (Chicago), Kira N. Conlon (Los Angeles), Matthew J. Goldman (Century City), Hayley S. Grunvald (San Diego (Del Mar)), Kristin P. Housh (San Diego (Del Mar)), Patricia M. Jeng (San Francisco), Joy Nemirow (Palo Alto (News - Alert)), Chris Ponder (Palo Alto), Thomas R. Proctor (San Diego), Mikela T. Sutrina (Chicago), and Douglas A. (Drew) Svor (Washington, D.C.). The promotions are effective March 1, 2021. These accomplished 13 women and men, resident across eight of our offices, embody Sheppard Mullin s long-standing commitment to client service, said Sheppard Mullin chairman Guy Halgren. 2020 was a challenging year for many reasons, and these attorneys were instrumental in helping their clients navigate these unprece
project worked with vulnerable fishing families to identify unique problems and develop specific solutions for improving community nutrition.
While researching poverty and food insecurity in Kenya, Andrew Wamukota of Pwani University was rather surprised by what he found. His data showed that the most vulnerable communities living along the Kenyan coast suffered from higher rates of malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies.
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“You would expect that since they have closer access to the sea, they would be able to feed their families with fish they catch, but that wasn’t always the case,” Wamukota said.
That led Wamukota and his project co-lead, Lora Iannotti of Washington University in St. Louis, to SecureFish, a project of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish. The program aims to understand the underlying causes of poor nutrition within vulnerable Kenyan communities and to develop solutions that increase access to and consumption of sustainable f
The Atlantic
Will Republican officials in the state pay a price for the recent blackouts?
Updated on February 25, 2021 at 9:45 a.m. ET
Dozens of Texans are dead because of the state’s energy crisis last week. Some froze in their bed or their living room. Others suffocated in their idling car, poisoned by carbon monoxide. A few perished in house fires while trying to keep their family warm. And millions spent days without heat or running water. Gaming out the electoral ramifications of an event when it’s still causing pain may seem crass. But the politics of the energy crisis are inextricable from the event itself. Many Texans blame the collapse of the power grid the impetus for all this suffering on a lapse in state leadership. Will voters hold those leaders accountable next time they cast a ballot?
From a 2020 paper in the
Quarterly Journal of Economics by Raj Chetty on college admissions to Ivy League colleges (plus Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke). It features Chetty’s usual immense sample sizes from theoretically secret data sources (IRS, Census, testing agencies, etc.) that nobody had the chutzpah before to think that they could data mine:
Chetty et al write:
The impacts of income-neutral allocations at the most selective colleges differ from those in the broader population. At Ivy-Plus colleges, the fraction of students from the bottom quintile remains essentially unchanged under income-neutral allocations in absolute terms (rising from 3.8% to 4.4%), but the fraction of students from the middle class (the second, third, and fourth income quintiles) rises sharply, from 27.8% to 37.9%, as shown in Table VI. Figure V, Panel A shows why we see the biggest effects on the representation of the middle class by plotting the parental income distribution of high SAT/ACT (≥1300