Here are the ten links I learned from this week:
- Read Justice Ginsburg’s moving tribute to her “best buddy” Justice Scalia (Vox)
- Outside spending for 2016 hits $200m (OpenSecrets)
- 9 questions about Cuba you were too embarrassed to ask (Vox)
- The remarkably different answers men and women give when asked who’s the smartest in the class (The Washington Post)
- Why it’s So Hard to Prove Zika is Causing Birth Defects (FiveThirtyEight)
- Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Reveals Generational Schism Among Women (The New York Times)
- Why the Congressional Black Caucus endorsement of Hillary Clinton is a really big deal (The Washington Post)
- What are Democratic superdelegates? A cartoon explainer. (Vox)
- Further Reading: Everything you need to know about delegate math in the presidential primary (The Washington Post)
- Every presidential 7th year ranked, from Washington to Obama (Vox)
- Get up to speed fast on the giant political fight over replacing Antonin Scalia (Vox)
- How Scalia Compared with Other Justices (The New York Times)
- How Scalia’s death reshapes four Supreme Court cases (BBC News)
- Scalia Was Almost Never the Most Conservative Justice on The Supreme Court (FiveThirtyEight)
“Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia” by Stephen Masker (CC BY 2.0)
This is a reply for the article: “The remarkably different answers men and women give when asked who’s the smartest in the class”
This was a really interesting article to me. When I first read the title I assumed that guys would think girls are smarter and vice versa. I am not at all surprised though to find that guys overwhelmingly think guys are always smarter. Sexism is definitely a thing and it is underlying in a lot of people’s minds. I see it everywhere from work to within friend groups. Hopefully studies like this bring it to the attention of people and they reevaluate their thought process.
Jacob, when you see sexism or sexist behavior, what is your response? What do you do to stop or discourage it?
This is a reply for the article: “Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Reveals Generational Schism Among Women”
This was one of the most interesting articles I came across on this blog. It was very enlightening to hear the many different views of why women want to see a Woman in the Oval office. As a republican male I still think it would be a big step in the right direction to see a Woman President. I liked that some of the women in the article expressed their desire to have a woman president but still put the issues that candidates support ahead of that desire. There was a woman in the beginning of the article that said she strongly saw herself as a feminist but was still supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary. Even though Hillary is a woman I think that Bernie’s policy will be more helpful towards gender equality in the long term.
What do you mean when you say, “Bernie’s policy will be more helpful towards gender equality in the long term”? What are his policies in this area? How, do you think, they will be more helpful towards gender equality than the policies of other candidates in the race?