The Recent Trend in Marital Success in the United States

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norval D. Glenn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marital Success

Mexico

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-96
Author(s):  
Yossi Harpaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Insurance Policy ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Dual Nationality ◽  
Strategic Acquisition ◽  
A Site

This chapter studies the growth in U.S. dual nationality in Mexico, and specifically the phenomenon of strategic cross-border births. This involves middle- and upper-class Mexican parents who travel to the United States to give birth, aiming to secure U.S. citizenship for their children. The families who engage in this practice typically have little interest in emigrating. Instead, they mainly view the United States as a site of high-prestige consumption and wish to provide their children with easy access to tourism, shopping, and education across the border. The American passport is also an insurance policy that allows easy exit at times of insecurity in Mexico. This strategic acquisition of U.S. dual nationality by upper-class Mexicans can be juxtaposed with another recent trend: the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican undocumented immigrants, who take their U.S.-born children with them to Mexico. For the former group, dual nationality is voluntary and practical; for the latter, it is an imposed disadvantage.

Constitutional Law in 1938–1939: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1938

1940 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Decisions ◽  
Constitutional System

The 1938 term of the Supreme Court brought substantial changes in its personnel. Mr. Justice Cardozo died on January 9, 1938. He was succeeded by Mr. Justice Frankfurter, who took office on January 30, 1939. On February 13, 1939, Mr. Justice Brandeis retired, and on April 17 Mr. Justice Douglas was appointed to fill his place. By the end of the term, therefore, four justices appointed by President Roosevelt had taken office. It is too early to appraise the results of these appointments upon the decisions and doctrines of the Court. One statement may be made, however, which throws some light upon the recent trend of judicial decisions. In preparing the present survey of the Court's decisions, some sixty cases were examined, all but one or two of them turning upon constitutional issues. In these sixty-odd cases, Mr. Justice McReynolds and Mr. Justice Butler, the two remaining members of the conservative “old guard,” dissented together twenty-five times. In several instances they were joined in dissent by Mr. Justice Roberts, and once or twice by the Chief Justice. In the main, however, they stood alone against a compact majority of six or seven justices. With the death of Mr. Justice Butler in the fall of 1939, Mr. Justice McReynolds stands like the boy on the burning deck amidst what obviously appears to him to be the imminent destruction of the old constitutional system.

Omnipresent Economics: The Belt-and-Road-Initiative (BRI) Underpinning

2018 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850002
Author(s):  
Da Hsuan Feng ◽  
Haiming Liang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Mobile Payments ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

In this paper, we will discuss at length a founding theoretical underpinning for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which we term as “omnipresent economics.” We will also discuss how such economics could allow China to work with the United States, European nations, emergent nations as well as developing nations. We also discuss the recent trend of mobile payments in which China is now a leader, and predict how it may allow nations to flourish under such a system. Finally, we will discuss how such economics could render global economy stable.

scholarly journals Critiquing Anthropocentric Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Sport “Hiatus”

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-565
Author(s):  
Samuel M. Clevenger ◽  
Oliver Rick ◽  
Jacob Bustad
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This commentary highlights a recent trend of anthropocentrism (a focus on human-centered interests and activities) in the media coverage in the United States and Europe on the disruption of the contemporary sports industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argued that the coverage promotes anthropocentric narratives by framing the pandemic as an external force causing a temporary and unforeseen “hiatus” in the sports industry. As a result, media consumers learn about human interest stories associated with consumer demand and industry adaptation: stories that renormalize, rather than question, the sports industry in its current and hegemonic form. Such media discourses bypass an opportunity to consider the longstanding entanglements of human and nonhuman actors in sporting contexts, rethink sport through environmental and nonhuman perspectives, and, ultimately, advance more progressive, democratic politics. The commentary employs a posthumanist lens to critique the recent anthropocentric media coverage, highlighting the ways in which it reproduces the dualist logic of neoliberal capitalism and deflects attention to the human and nonhuman relations that have always existed in contexts of sport and human physicality.

scholarly journals “She Did Not Notice Me”: Gender, Anxiety, and Desire in The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Suzy Woltmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
Sexual Ideology ◽  
Romantic Interest

Using the recent trend in literary scholarship that theorizes literature in terms of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and dialectic transnational identities, I examine gender and sexual ideology in Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a post-9/11 text that explores the intricacies of community and terror. Specifically, I argue that the novel articulates a particularly gendered vision of spatial, social, and political (im)mobility through the narrator’s desires, especially as demonstrated through his romantic interest, and masculine anxieties expressed through his response to American imperialism. The narrator’s view of the United States is inexorably tied to his projection of convoluted desire, and he conflates impotence with frustration at being unable to respond to growing American militaristic power. We as readers wish to identify with a protagonist whose story we slowly learn is largely articulated in terms of his sexual desire and denial: we at first empathize with his desire but then, when discovering its projection is problematic, simultaneously wish to reject it. The interplay of the microcosm of an individual’s failed romantic relationship and the macrocosm of countries at conflict mimics the mobility and liminality of conflicting ideologies.

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