By Marian Wang, ProPublica Congress has two days to reach a budget deal to fund the government for the rest of the year or else come Saturday, the federal government will go into a partial shutdown. But what’s the budget standoff all about and what would a shutdown really entail? Here’s our attempt to explain […]
Let The Games Begin: Massachusetts Politcos Jockeying For Vacant Senate Seat
With the passing of Ted Kennedy last week and after the weeklong media coverage of both his life, and his politcal career now over, the media’s attention has now been turned toward just who might fill the empty Senate seat occupied by Senator Kennedy. Even going so far as to call it "a Kennedy seat," in the […]
Brazil: Petroleum, elections and poverty matters
On Friday 15th of May, the Brazilian Congress launched an investigation into the giant state-run oil company Petrobras. The initiative was started by government leaders of the opposition PSDB party. They set up what Brazilians call a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI is the abbreviation in Portuguese) to scrutinize supposed irregularities in the company. Meanwhile, on […]
Psychiatric Categories as Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorder – Abstract
IN a penetrating ethnographic study of American psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann (2000) comes to a troubling diagnosis. At the end of the century, psychiatric practice, theory, and training are riven by a deep divide between two ways of understanding mental disorder. These orientations–the biomedical and the psychodynamic–have lived in uneasy coexistence for several decades, struggling to […]
World Series Of Poker 2009 Updates/ Results 02/04/09
World Series Of Poker 2009 Updates/Results FEBRUARY 4, 2009 Mark Your Calendar! World’s Longest-Running, Largest and Most Prestigious Poker Tournament Set to Run From May 26 – July 15, 2009 The 40th annual World Series of Poker® (WSOP®) — a set of poker tournaments open to anyone 21 years of age or older — will […]
It’s Going to Take a Lot More than Joe the Plumber
10 15 08 It’s Going To Take a Lot More than Joe the Plumber by Mary Lyon How much do I not like John McCain now, because of this final debate in Campaign 2008? Let me count the ways – which, at this point, number far greater than the components of a well-equipped plumber’s tool […]