Only 40-50% of adult U.S. citizens vote in the midterms (U.S. Census Bureau). Perhaps the other 50-60% wonder: Midway between what? Statistics for participation in primaries are twice as dismal: A scant 20% of eligible voters in the U.S. typically vote in the primaries (Bipartisan Policy Center). https://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/pc/annex/pcy/primary-elections-in-latin-america/mobile_browsing/onePag Only three other
Recently, I checked in with Dr. Bjørn Westgard, to see how he was doing. Back in the ‘90s, Bjørn was enrolled in a wildly demanding, combined M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois, where I had the pleasure of serving as his academic advisor. After completing his medical school coursework,
Anthropologist Charlie Piot has been conducting research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa for over thirty years. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), has gained wide attention for re-theorizing a classic, out-of-the-way place as existing within the modern and the global.
Cleaning up beach waste in the form of abandoned rubber flip-flops . . . recycling landfill-able castoffs . . . training low-income men and women in job skills and providing them with living wages in Nairobi . . . creating beautiful art . . . saving fish, dolphins and baby turtles from