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Lauren Redniss on Marie Curie, STEM, & Women’s History
/0 Comments/in Featured, News, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on The Learning Curve, Cara and Gerard mark Women’s History Month with Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, the first work of visual nonfiction to be named a finalist for the National Book Award.
Supreme Debt Consideration: Will Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Get Passing Grade?
/0 Comments/in Education, Featured, Higher Education /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with constitutional scholar Ilya Somin about the merits and likely success of the two Supreme Court cases Nebraska v. Biden and Department of Education v. Brown, which challenge the President’s constitutional right to cancel more than $400 billion in student debt.
Gov. Healey’s Tax Plan: Not Enough on Competitiveness
/0 Comments/in Economic Opportunity, Economic Opportunity, News, Pioneer Research /by Eileen McAnnenyIn an effort to deliver “an affordable, equitable and competitive tax structure for Massachusetts,” Governor Maura Healey on Feb. 28 unveiled her tax package. While her proposal makes significant strides in addressing affordability and indirectly improves equity, it does little to address the issues of competitiveness.
“The Last Candid Man”: B.U.’s Dr. John Silber
/0 Comments/in Education, Featured, News, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on The Learning Curve, Cara and Gerard talk with Rachel Silber Devlin about her memoir, Snapshots of My Father, John Silber, which captures the wide-ranging and remarkable life of the late philosopher, teacher, and president of Boston University.
Public Union Constitutionality: Returning Government Accountability to the People
/0 Comments/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with Philip K. Howard about the legal theories in his newly released book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions, which questions whether the structure of public employees unions frustrates the will of the people, and abrogates the responsibility of elected officials to an unelected and unaccountable privileged class.