The World as 100 People Over the Last Two Centuries
Looking at the world as 100 people, (or a percentage of the population), we can see very interesting trends and shifts around the world in many areas. Each of the graphic in today’s graphic are also interactive on the source site, ourworldindata.org. There you can see others as well such as population distributions, levels of education, and political regimes (aside from the shown “democracies”. [VIA]
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Spring 1960. “Efforts of John F. Kennedy’s campaign team, including members of his family, in West Virginia during Kennedy’s quest for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Includes brother Bob at a drive-in in Bluefield.” From photos by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine article “The Kennedys: A Family Political Machine.” 35mm negative.
What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand?
Almost like clockwork, the political cycles ebb and flow on the topic of immigration and immigration reform in the United States. How many of us really understand the various paths and timelines to achieving legal immigrant status, and eventual citizenship? Today’s infographic helps highlight these many paths to citizenship and the roadblocks that might hold up the process for hopeful American citizens. [VIA]
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“January 23, 1924. Washington, D.C. “Midget.” News item, Jan. 20: “The first organized touring Coolidge Marching Club to work for the nomination of the president comes to Washington Sunday morning. It is composed of 25 European midgets, headed by I.S. Rose, New Englander and impresario. The midgets wear buttons and ribbons on which is inscribed ‘Coolidge 1925.'”” (Source: Shorpy)
“… the face of the young man (a political exile who unexpectedly came back home) [was re-painted] four times in search of a proper expression. It is generally believed that by depicting various reaction of young man’s household Repin tried to show diverse but mostly positive attitude of society toward revolutionary movements of that time. Actually, under strict censorship of Czarist Russia, it was a political declaration disguised as an everyday genre scene.(Wikipaintings)
As the news becomes inundated more and more each day with news about Federal spending, budgets and the debt limit it is vital that we all remain educated about what these things are, what they mean, and how they work. Today’s video provides a short and simple explanation of one of those key points of contention in Washington D.C. — the debt limit. Also included is information on the budget in general, the responsibilities of Congress and the President in the process, and the Constitutionality of it all.
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We often hear the term gerrymandering around election time, but what does it mean? What does gerrymandering do? Why is it important come election time? How in the world does it work? Today’s Video from TED helps explain and answer all these questions.
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