Current Events Flashcards
What might be consequences of sanctions on russia?
Some analysts also warn of a potential escalatory spiral. Russia might retaliate against an economic gut punch by cutting off natural gas shipments to Europe or by mounting cyberattacks against American and European infrastructure. Could hurt all Russians financually, maybe make their stock market crash promised could roil major economies, particularly those in Europe, and even threaten the stability of markets
What is gerrymandering?
Gerrymandering is the intentional distortion of political districts to give one party an advantage, and it has been criticized for disenfranchising many voters and fueling deeper polarization.
When was first attempt to end slavery?
participating. In 1807, right on schedule, Congress passed — and President Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owning Virginian, signed — a measure to abolish the importation of enslaved Africans to the United States, effective Jan. 1, 1808. But the end to American involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade (or at least the official end, given an illegal trade that would not end until the start of the Civil War) did not mean the end of the slave trade altogether. Slavery remained a big and booming business, driven by demand for tobacco, rice, indigo and increasingly cotton,
Effects if the cotton gin, invented by abolitionist
Within a decade of the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, annual cotton production had grown twentyfold to 35 million pounds in 1800. By 1810, production had risen to roughly 85 million pounds per year, accounting for more than 20 percent of the nation’s export revenue.
Who is mayor of new york?
Eric adams
Which supreme court judge is retiring?
Stephen Breyer
What is Linda working kn?
Climate mitigation at a mu icipal lecel rathwr th an federal. A lot of gridlock on making regulations at a federal level. Municipalities also feeling mire the effects of climate change. Within that focusing in food waste because bulk of food ends up in landfill not composted and releases a lot of methane. Some cities have methane xapture and are even able to transform that i to types if fules and mechanisms of methane capture is something she will be looking at in future months. Hoping to be a model city. The republicans so a great job of creating midel laws to put in the hands if these small sustainability offices— and will name them, free energy, to be against regulations for knky electric stoves fir example.
What are budens olling njmbers
The data analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows a parallel collapse in Mr. Biden’s own popularity. He entered office with higher approval (55 percent) than Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did, but has since tumbled to 42 percent, lower than any president at this stage in his tenure except his immediate predecessor, according to data that go back to World War II.
What is democrats problem?
Inherited trends, including Covid-19, deficits and geostrategic overreach, are partly to blame. So is poor policymaking on issues like the economic stimulus. But the heart of the problem lies elsewhere. Democrats are telling a story about America — about the depth and pervasiveness of racism, and about the existential dangers of Mr. Trump — that a great many Americans, even a great many would-be Democrats, do not buy.
What does being orty if teachers unions mean for dema?
Democrats are the party of teachers’ unions, whose interest in school closures has clashed with that of working parents throughout the Covid-19 crisis. They are the party that backs the teaching of contentious race dogmas (sometimes called critical race theory, whether rightly or wrongly) to impressionable children. And they are the party that has overhauled or abolished competitive public school examinations in New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Northern Virginia because of the racial composition (usually disproportionately Asian) of
What aee bufens chalenges
From the start Mr. Biden faced complex managerial challenges. He has always had a weak hold on the coalition of Democratic interest groups that won him the election, and he has had to acquiesce in some of their policy preferences. He has liberalized many of the immigration rules he inherited from Mr. Trump, suspending construction on a border wall and opening asylum procedures to victims of domestic violence. The result abroad has been hope: In September, a wave of mostly Haitian migrants l
What are dema muscalculations in terms if demographics
But this may not even be the party’s biggest miscalculation when it comes to demographics. Minorities do not seem to like the Democrats’ racialized approach any more than whites do.
Why has trumo and extrem rught taken hikd?
They have misunderstood what the former president represented to voting Americans. Mr. Trump tapped into smoldering grievances against various information-economy elites and managers. There is no reason that ethnic-minority voters wouldn’t share some of those grievances.
Could trump have hurt thr populist mivement?
On the other hand, it could be a warning to all parties. Perhaps sympathy with populist discontent was actually tamped down by the public’s repugnance for Mr. Trump as a person. We may yet underestimate the discontent itself.
What is one way Republicans are more strategic than democrats
Newt gonrich began in the 80s to think about gerrymandering and a long strategic plan; he focused the Republicans winning the state secretarys as they control the elections. The democrats dont think of these long term strategies- caught up in emotions.
