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Smithsonian Turns Its Head to Change and Adopts Ethical Returns Policy

[ad_1] The Smithsonian Institution announced on Tuesday that it has adopted a policy that will formally authorize its founding museums to return items that have been looted or once unethically obtained from their collections. The institution’s leaders said the policy enacted Friday represents a departure from the long-held position it and other museums have taken, …

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Brazil’s climate policy is changing. This is important for all

[ad_1] “He looks at it with a modern mindset,” she said. “It’s one thing to fix the past, to undo mistakes. Confirming new ways is one thing.” President Biden has made climate a pillar of his campaign, as did Gabriel Boric, who became President of Chile in March. Just a few weeks ago, Colombia’s left-wing …

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Some US governors are advocating for ‘turning back’ mask policy changes.

[ad_1] The governors of Maryland and New Jersey on Sunday defended steps to ease Covid restrictions.All cases of coronavirus in their state justified a change even as new cases and deaths still quite high in some parts of the United States. “The best we can say right now is that this thing get out of …

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Newly Released, From Black Joy to Technology Policy

[ad_1] BLACK JOY: Stories of Resistance, Endurance and Restoration, Read by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, author. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) Expanding on the author’s June 2020 article on the personal and political power of laughing with her daughter, these 36 essays challenge the narrative that Black life is all about struggle and trauma. PART OF MY …

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NCAA to Revise US Swimming’s New Policy on Transgender

[ad_1] Although the NCAA is moving slowly on legislative issues and is not scheduled to meet until April, Dent said the board could meet in a remote format, possibly before the NCAA swimming championships, which begin March 16 in Atlanta. Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League, said the NCAA’s request to change eligibility …

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Alan A. Stone, 92, Died; Use of Challenging Psychiatry in Public Policy

[ad_1] Alan A. Stone, an iconoclastic scholar who has used his dual appointments to the Harvard law and medical schools to exert a powerful influence on the evolution of psychiatric ethics over the past half century, died on January 23 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 92 years old. His son, Douglas, said …

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Alan A. Stone, 92, Died; Use of Challenging Psychiatry in Public Policy

[ad_1] Alan A. Stone, an iconoclastic scholar who has used his dual appointments to the Harvard law and medical schools to exert a powerful influence on the evolution of psychiatric ethics over the past half century, died on January 23 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 92 years old. His son, Douglas, said …

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Biden’s Social Policy and Climate Plan, What Is It To Build Better?

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House on Friday approved a sprawling, roughly $2 trillion social policy, climate and tax measure that is a pillar of President Biden’s domestic agenda. The product of months of intense negotiations, package It will strengthen the federal safety net, increase support for children and families with childcare subsidies and universal kindergarten, expand …

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What’s in the $2.2 Trillion Social Policy and Climate Act?

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House on Friday approved a sprawling, roughly $2 trillion social policy, climate and tax measure that is a pillar of President Biden’s domestic agenda. The product of months of intense negotiations, package It will strengthen the federal safety net, increase support for children and families with childcare subsidies and universal kindergarten, expand …

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Pelosi Predicts Thursday’s Vote on Biden’s Ambitious Social Policy Bill

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House Democrats, increasingly confident they have the support to pass the $1.85 trillion social policy and climate change bill, are pushing to vote on the package as early as Thursday evening, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing optimism that the measure will eventually reach the President. headed. Biden’s desk. “It’s pretty exciting. …

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