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Sean Wilentz. Robert Sean Wilentz ( / wɪˈlɛnts /; born February 20, 1951) is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. [1] His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth ...
LegalEagle. Devin James Stone (born December 16, 1983) [2] is an American lawyer and YouTuber known for his channel, LegalEagle, [3] where he reviews films and television shows [4] [5] to discuss the level of accuracy of their depictions of the law and courtroom procedure, and to discuss the legal issues raised by those works.
President Ronald Reagan's 1981 cut in the top rate on unearned income reduced the maximum capital gains rate to only 20% – its lowest level since the Hoover administration, as part of an overall economic growth strategy. The capital gains tax rate was also reduced by President Bill Clinton in 1997, from 28% to 20%.
alan-dershowitz .com. Alan Morton Dershowitz ( / ˈdɜːrʃəwɪts / DURR-shə-wits; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. [1] [2] From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law ...
Kirby has published more than 20 books, including multiple poetry collections, a handful of volumes of literary criticism, and biographies of Herman Melville and Little Richard. His poems and essays also frequently appear in journals such as The Southern Review. Kirby cites Keats, Little Richard, and Dante as foundational influences on his poetry.
UNODC calculated a rate of 6.9 in 2010. [9] UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population for 2012 (in their report titled "Global Study on Homicide 2013"). [10] [11] In the 2019 edition, the global rate was estimated at 6.1 per 100,000 for 2017.
Nafissa Thompson-Spires. Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.
In the 2024 edition, Trump easily had the worst showing with a score of 10.92 out of 100, while self-identified Republican historians rated Trump in the bottom five. The study organizers noted a drop in recent Republican presidents' scores by speculating that respondents put more weight towards a president's fealty towards political and ...