Tag: politics
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Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting ‘prison-industrial complex’—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem.…
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Why does America feel it needs to be so involved in the affairs of foreign nations?
A preliminary update on my work regarding the impact American Liberalism had on the US’ ascent to, and current fall from, global power
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Research Ideas
One of my primary objectives in establishing this blog was not only to provide a platform for my papers but also to create a space where I can document the process of crafting each research project. Today, I find myself concluding one of the initial steps in my research process: jotting down my paper ideas.…
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Book Review | “G-Man” by Beverly Gage
The acclaimed 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, stands as a seminal biography, marking the first comprehensive examination of the FBI’s inaugural director in over three decades. Authored by Beverly Gage, a distinguished professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University, this biography is the culmination…
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