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Emily Dickinson and Gardening – Emily Dickinson Museum. “I was reared in the garden, you know.
. ” – Emily Dickinson to Louise Norcross, late April 1859 (L206) The cultivated world of plants, as well as the wildflowers, trees, and shrubs that made up Emily Dickinson’s Amherst, provided the poet with a constant source of inspiration and companionship. Dickinson’s restored conservatory Emily Dickinson gardened throughout her life. Dickinson’s mother is generally credited with instilling in both Emily and her sister Lavinia a love of gardening. Emily Dickinson also learned about plants in botany courses at both Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. A view from the gardens. In the Homestead garden, Emily, Lavinia and Mrs.
As a gardener, Emily Dickinson was attuned to the weather, the changing seasons, transitions in times of day, and the populations of bees, flies, and birds that dwelled among her plants. The Supreme Court May Let Trump End DACA. Here’s What the Public Thinks About It. Welcome to Poll Watch, our weekly look at polling data and survey research on the candidates, voters and issues that will shape the 2020 election.
It increasingly looks like the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will allow the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, according to close observers of the court. Legal arguments aside, polls show that DACA — which has shielded from deportation roughly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — enjoys overwhelming popular support.
Allowing it to end would put the court out of step with trends in national public opinion, which has recently become more sympathetic to immigration than at any point in recorded history. But the voters who pay the closest attention to immigration tend to be Republicans, and they hold much more conservative views on this issue. Labour hoarding - Are there too many central bankers? Janet Yellen on Monetary Policy. How Will Trump’s Supreme Court Remake America? A former colleague says that Gorsuch urged his clerks to make money in the private sector before they went on the bench, the path he took himself as a corporate lawyer.
In the 2000s, Gorsuch represented Philip Anschutz, the oil-and-gas mogul, who has invested in a vast array of businesses and conservative publications, including The Washington Examiner. Anschutz played a role in elevating Gorsuch’s legal career. In 2006, after George W. Bush was re-elected president, Anschutz lobbied for Gorsuch’s appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. At the Nixon library, Gorsuch advertised his support for diversity.
Doctoring the Ladies. Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo, by Richard Samuel (1778) © National Portrait Gallery, London One might assume that an account of how 18th-century women participated in the life of the English universities (at that point restricted to Oxford and Cambridge) would be a very short one.
After all, women’s colleges only began to open their doors at the end of the Victorian era; women were first awarded degrees in 1920 (Oxford) and 1948 (Cambridge), with some colleges remaining closed to them until the 1980s. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own gives a vivid account of their equivocal position in the early 20th century, describing a visit to ‘Oxbridge’ in which she is chased off the grass by a beadle and told that ‘ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction’. The Man Behind Trump’s Facebook Juggernaut. The company moved to a tonier office across town and took on more lucrative clients—the University of Texas, ExxonMobil, a few real-estate agencies in New York.
Giles, like most San Antonians, was a Democrat; Parscale, like most Texans, was a Republican, at least in theory. “I had a mediocre voting history, let’s just put it that way,” he said later. (Public records suggest that he registered to vote for the first time at the age of twenty-seven.) “Brad was a businessman,” Quintin Mason, who was Parscale’s college basketball teammate and who remains his friend, told me. Thomas Piketty Goes Global Speaking in 1918, with Europe ravaged by the horrors of modern warfare and Russia in the hands of the Bolsheviks, Irving Fisher warned his colleagues at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association of “a great peril.”
That peril, which risked “perverting the democracy for which we have just been fighting,” was extreme inequality. “We may be sure that there will be a bitter struggle over the distribution of wealth,” Fisher, perhaps the most celebrated economist of his day, maintained. More than a century later—at another annual meeting of the American Economic Association—the spectre once more loomed over the discipline. “American capitalism and democracy are not working for people without a college degree,” Anne Case, an economist at Princeton, declared in January, as she flipped through slides in a large, windowless conference room. Stop Lying About Gun Control. The scope of the problem is enormous.
According to a Washington Post report in 2018: “There are more than 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the United States, or enough for every man, woman and child to own one and still have 67 million guns left over.” Furthermore, The New York Times reported in December: “There were 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, up by more than 1,000 from the year before. Nearly two-thirds were suicides. Discussing Guns in America Is Difficult. Let’s Try It. Anne-Marie: I am most concerned about how we support safe, responsible gun ownership to better protects kids, victims of domestic violence and the mentally ill.
Many gun owners seem to think gun control advocates want to take everyone’s guns away. I certainly do not. I’m interested in finding ways to make communities safer given the presence of so many guns. Chris: The big push right now politically, both statewide and federally, is for universal background checks. While 90 percent of adults in the U.S. support them, where people disagree is the implementation: Currently, in most states, the only way to legally buy a firearm without a background check is through a private sale. Discussing Guns in America Is Difficult. Let’s Try It. As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Starting to Plunge.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s immigration policies — from travel bans and visa restrictions to refugee caps and asylum changes — have begun to deliver on a longstanding goal: Legal immigration has fallen more than 11 percent and a steeper drop is looming.
While Mr. Trump highlights the construction of a border wall to stress his war on illegal immigration, it is through policy changes, not physical barriers, that his administration has been able to diminish the flow of migrants into the United States. Two more measures took effect Friday and Monday, an expansion of his travel ban and strict wealth tests on green card applicants. “He’s really ticking off all the boxes. It’s kind of amazing,” said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.
And immigration experts say new policies will accelerate the trend. “President Trump continues to deliver on his promise to the American people to enforce our nation’s immigration laws,” Kenneth T. The Supreme Court May Let Trump End DACA. Here’s What the Public Thinks About It. Labour hoarding - Are there too many central bankers? Trump Got His Wish. Mexico Is Now the Wall. Mexico is now the wall.
President Trump got his wish. The heart-wrenching images documenting a recent confrontation in the state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, are evidence of this. Dozens of Mexican National Guard troops equipped with helmets, batons and transparent shields coalesced on the highway connecting the Mexican cities of Ciudad Hidalgo and Tapachula to stop a caravan of migrants heading to the United States from Central America. Mexico has effectively turned into an extension of Mr. I’m a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted.
In 2004, as the national immigration reporter for the San Diego-based Copley newspaper chain, I returned to Arizona to report on Proposition 200, a statewide ballot initiative to deny public services to unauthorized immigrants. Public anxiety had grown in tandem with the state’s illegal immigrant population, which had jumped to 480,000 in 2005 from an estimated 88,000 in 1990. In Phoenix I spoke with Donna Neill, a volunteer organizer in a working-class neighborhood and the driving force in the construction of a park that was used primarily by immigrant children. Nevertheless, she supported Proposition 200. She pointed to crowded classrooms, apartments where two or three families crammed into a space meant for one and home additions in violation of housing codes that went unenforced. “We’re losing the simple things that make a society a society, but no one wants to step forward because they’re afraid of crossing some line and being called a racist,” said Ms.
Trump Posts Another ‘Keep Out’ Sign for Immigrants. On Friday, with Americans focused on President Trump’s impeachment trial, the coronavirus and the upcoming Iowa caucuses, the Trump administration announced it was adding six more countries to the list of those whose citizens face travel restrictions to the United States. The given reason was that those nations were not sufficiently screening people who sought to come to America. The six countries affected when the travel ban takes effect on Feb. 22 are Sudan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. All have sizable, if not majority, Muslim populations — in Myanmar’s case, Muslims are a minority that is severely repressed. According to the acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, these countries fell short in new vetting criteria for “terrorists and criminals attempting to enter the United States.”
Bigoted and Feckless, the Travel Ban Is Pure Trump. On Tuesday morning the five conservative justices of the Supreme Court — including the one who got the job only because Senate Republicans stole a seat and held it open for him — voted to uphold President Trump’s travel ban, which indefinitely bars most people from five majority-Muslim countries, and certain citizens from two other countries, from entering the United States. The conservatives said the ban, Mr. Trump’s third version after the first two were struck down by lower federal courts, was a lawful exercise of presidential authority. They reached this conclusion despite Mr. The Racism at the Heart of Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’
It’s happening a little bit out of public consciousness — swamped by impeachment, the coronavirus and the Democratic presidential race — but on Friday President Trump announced further restrictions on immigration and foreign entry to the United States. Citing security concerns, the administration has slammed the door on immigrants from the African nations of Sudan, Tanzania and Eritrea, as well as Myanmar in Southeast Asia and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. These countries, which have large Muslim populations, join seven others on the president’s ever-developing travel ban. Restricting care for transgender teens would be a terrible mistake.
Warren Buffett No Fan of Modern Monetary Theory. Turns out that billionaire investor Warren Buffett doesn’t love Modern Monetary Theory either. “I’m not a fan of MMT -- not at all,” the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive officer said Friday in a telephone interview, adding that the deficit spending that’s part of the theory could risk “spiraling” inflation. “We don’t need to get into danger zones, and we don’t know precisely where they are.” Buffett joins critics including Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink and DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach, who called MMT “complete nonsense” that’s being used to justify a “massive socialist program.”
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A report by the NHS Confederation, which represents most hospital trusts in England, warns that the NHS could be landed with a much larger bill for medication and denied the chance to use cheaper alternatives to expensive branded drugs. The voluntary pricing and access scheme (VPAS), which caps the total bill the NHS has to pay for medicines, would be under threat, given the determination of the US government and drug companies to force Britain to pay higher prices, it says. Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing. The special bond between Ireland and the UK will not be undermined by Brexit.
Today marks an end and a beginning. Pro-EU protests on Border as Brexit supporters cheer escape from federal ‘prison’ For unionists in Northern Ireland, Brexit has backfired badly. There had been talk among unionists of street parties to celebrate Brexit day. Flags and bunting and maybe even bonfires. A royal visitor. Border on Brexit: ‘Europe will look after Northern Ireland’s interests’ For 3½ years, David Crockett has lived and worked on the frontier of Brexit. The Border between Derry city and Bridgend, Co Donegal, runs right through his farm at Coshquin; the Crockett family has lived there through partition, customs checks and the Troubles. Like many people along the Border, he had become used to the uncertainty of Brexit; “I’m sitting overlooking this Border, that’s become a big issue,” he says, gesturing towards the busy main road below.
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