| 单词 | reformer |
| 例句 | I diversified my training, too, by incorporating Pilates reformer, kickboxing, interval running, everything and anything to increase my stamina and strength. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We formulate new ideas by analogy, working from what we know toward what we don’t know, and what the reformers knew were the rhythms of the agricultural seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We should work hard to improve the prisons in our society—take up the unfinished work of Thomas Mott Osborne and transform these scrap heaps into repair shops, to paraphrase the great reformer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Liberals and conservatives, traditionalists and reformers, white-collar officials and blue-collar miners, all remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected all different opinions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2000, reformers finally had enough votes to get the issue on the statewide ballot, where a majority of voters chose to eliminate the ban, although 41 percent voted to keep it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We had no sense that he would be a reformer in any way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Europeans who came ashore at Cape Cod in November of 1620 carried a view of the world that was based on the teachings of Christian religious reformer John Calvin. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He was soon speaking at rallies, giving interviews, and meeting with reformers all over the country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Women had been working for the right to vote since Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a group of reformers first called for female suffrage in 1848. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What bonded us into the best organization black Americans ever had was every Muslim’s devout regard for Mr. Muhammad as black America’s moral, mental, and spiritual reformer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from prioritizing the needs of the least advantaged, many black reformers began aggressively pursuing policy reforms that would benefit the black elite to the detriment of the poorest segments of the black community. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The reformers, Gold writes: strove for ways to reduce time spent studying, because long periods of respite could save the mind from injury. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It took time—and continual pressure from reformers—to implement the plan. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The outrage about Guiteau boosted support for activists who had been working for years to reform the system, and the reformers gained enough votes in Congress to pass a bill. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This is the logic the reformers applied to the cultivation of young minds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z No other reformer had logged as many miles on behalf of suffrage—or any other cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The new wave of reformers saw the KGB as not just a symptom of the USSR's problem but the root of the problem itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She never missed an antislavery convention, and she became friends with writers and other social reformers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A former teacher, journalist, and dean of women at Northwestern University, Willard was both a visionary and a powerful reformer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Anna Howard Shaw thought Paul was too young and too militant for the job, but she decided to give her a chance after progressive reformer and suffragist Jane Addams spoke up on Paul’s behalf. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Many reformers took up this cause before they took on other social issues, such as abolition and suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Our ancestors were so stupid and short-sighted that when the first reformers came along and offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions, they wouldn’t have anything to do with them.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly ninety years ago, Thomas Mott Osborne, a politically connected prison reformer, spent a week in voluntary confinement at New York’s other famous historic prison, Auburn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Osborne was at heart a politician and reformer; Lawes was a firm but sympathetic warden several cuts above the rest, a passionate believer in doing the job right. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t think of herself as a reformer, but her religious beliefs led her to conclude that all people were equal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the ban went into effect in 1920, reformers who had campaigned for it were pleased, but plenty of Americans refused to comply with the new rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She was simply a reformer without a cause, and therefore lost, and lonely, and exhausted. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One tank commander announced that he would protect the protesters instead of arresting the reformers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Many were college-educated and the descendants of Quakers, abolitionists, and other social reformers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The politics of respectability made sense to many black reformers during the Jim Crow era, since African Americans had no vote, could not change policy, and lived under the constant threat of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Young offenders, these reformers argued, were different from adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The gene entrances English and American reformers, who hope to manipulate human genetics to accelerate human evolution and emancipation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Though not primarily a reformer, Lawes had strong opinions about the possibilities of prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But as the historian Kenneth Gold has pointed out, the early educational reformers were also tremendously concerned that children not get too much schooling. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z To the dismay of reformers, Prohibition was turning out to be crime’s best friend. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Consider also the lengthy to-do list for reformers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There’s the reformer, answering the divine call to “fix my church” by recovering the Biblical ideals of poverty, simplicity, and love of neighbor and enemy alike. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And since these attributes are seen as independent of and more malleable than intelligence, they are a voguish area for education reformers. Character-driven 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Republicans hope to portray her as a down-to-earth reformer and mother of five, who chose to sell off the Alaska governor's jet and instead drive her family around the state. An All-Out Battle for Women's Votes Begins 2008-08-30T08:00:00Z But Monteverdi happened to be one of music's most inventive reformers. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z In 1881 the American educator and social reformer Caroline Augusta Kennard wrote to ask Darwin if she correctly understood him on the inferiority of women. Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z At the end of the 19th century, the city devised a unique solution to its many perceived sins and opened a vice district called Storyville — where, reformers believed, all manner of sin could be contained. The ten best books of 2014 I did the aerial classes, and the Pilates reformer. Addicted to my cycling class 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z Although as a young man he supported Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution, in 1990 he ran for the presidency of Peru as a moderate reformer. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z Also a critic, social reformer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Hammond contributed to the integration of Benny Goodman's band and lured Count Basie out of Kansas City. Music legend John Hammond gets film treatment 2010-04-20T06:54:00Z Victorian-era artworks and furnishings conceived by British architects and design reformers are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London, titled “Architect-Designers: From Pugin to Voysey.” Victorian-era Furnishings Designed by British Architects Are on View in London 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Nellie may not be a reformer or an active part of the movement, but she is very clued up on the workings of the world. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z I agree with what Zach just said, but it’s perversely made worse by the regulations the campaign reformers have put on campaigns. How the Clinton-Gingrich years became ‘the good old days’: Republicans revisit 1994 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Cops, governments and social reformers are part of those environments, too, and in their own ways, each profits from commercial sex. When prostitution wasn’t a crime 2013-02-20T06:34:00Z Speaking to the camera, he’s an ambiguous character: a tough bureaucrat, possibly a reformer. Review: ‘Bolshoi Babylon,’ Russia’s Famed Ballet Troupe in a Scandal’s Glare 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z For instance, she shows that in many cases of successful constitution-making, reformers built upon previous efforts and learned from the mistakes their predecessors made. Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Finding a durable basis for such a separation is one of the great challenges of our age, and that’s why I support reformers like Maajid Nawaz, who is attempting to do just that. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And he offers a solution, featuring a handful of reformers he says show that it's possible to provide good schools for all. Film director Davis Guggenheim hopes to reveal inconvenient truths about schools 2010-09-22T23:09:00Z “The laity is way ahead of the bishops in terms of the ordination of gays and women,” said McDonagh, referring to two issues that many reformers consider basic. Irish Catholics flee the church 2013-03-26T23:09:00Z A one-on-one session on the reformer beds was my last class of the day. Should you consider training more than once a day? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z New York’s Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, who values his reputation as a reformer, has also taken a lot of money from telecom companies over his political career. Stop-and-frisk, eviscerated 2012-05-29T19:30:00Z In the Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, I find I am called for a 15th century reformer of the Poor Clares, who helped to end the Great Schism of the West. Colette Bryce's poetry workshop 2010-09-20T12:43:00Z It doesn't take much to see he's still an empty suit – not a reformer, but one-time drug addict who, unbeknownst to most, is responsible for a man's death. "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z In his mind, he is not a reformer but a ruthless revolutionary — Robespierre, or Trotsky. ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The newspaper interviewed a Swiss prison reformer who said it was degrading to be held in a room that looked like “a little girl’s bedroom.” Can pink really pacify? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z The difficulty for the clean-air reformers was that unlike, say, sewage or water, fog was never a candidate for grand public engineering works—though someone did once suggest piping clean air in from the countryside. Grey and dreichy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Even Alexander II, the reformer czar who freed the serfs, outlawed Ukrainian books and magazines and forbade the use of the language in theaters and opera. Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Their efforts often brought only censure and arrest, the attentions of the missionary or the social reformer. An Exhilarating Work of History About Daring Adventures in Love 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z There's a simple reason, she explains, why Jack has never heard of them: "Schools don't teach the history of social reformers who were real American heroes and fought for workers' rights and justice." Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos - review 2012-06-29T21:55:03Z The scholarship illuminates how for centuries reformers tried to prevent cruel treatment of the mentally ill and worked to develop architecture that would provide comfort while keeping patients away from the public. Chains, Whips and Misery: Studying and Preserving Old ‘Lunatic’ Asylums 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This year’s production depicts Jesus as a fiery and frustrated social reformer whose ideas have polarized the Jewish community. ‘It’s My Tradition Too’: A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Under New Labour, argue the reformers, the fragmentation only accelerated. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011-04-08T23:09:12Z Its first president was the education reformer and politician Horace Mann; Coretta Scott King is among the famous graduates. Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z His huge personal wealth empowered his status as a reformer. Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary 2010-08-24T17:43:00Z "It's a reflection that South Africa is maturing in terms of its wine product," said Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of the political reformer. Mandela family launches wine collection in Miami 2013-02-22T20:08:08Z This critique says that rational social engineering, the sort often pursued by revolutionaries and progressive reformers, can never reproduce the subtle knowledge and virtue captured in tradition. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z This, among others, is a question reformers are tackling from coast to coast. Segregation in urban schools 2012-07-11T15:20:00Z He and the Russian reformer openly regard one another with warmth and admiration; the true topic of the film isn’t Gorbachev in some vacuum of posterity, but Herzog’s individual understanding of him. Werner Herzog: 'I'm not a pundit. Don't push me into that corner' 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But cruise reformers like Karla Hart — she used to work in the tourist industry — say that between out-of-town businesses and seasonal workers, a lot of that money leaks out of the community. Cruise ships have returned to Seattle — is that a good thing? Here’s a primer on the issues facing the cruise industry 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Across the country, school reformers are pushing for the expansion of publicly funded early education. 3 Books on the Importance of Early Education 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The religious reformer Martin Luther supposedly adopted the practice and added candles. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Tourgée attended and lectured a roomful of liberal reformers, educators and clergymen for over an hour. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z “The copyrights of my works are his,” wrote the 19th-century author and feminist reformer Caroline Norton about her wastrel spouse, “my very soul and brains are not my own.” “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z The show also presciently mirrors a current school board race in that district that is pitting a charter school reformer against an old-time public school advocate. Hipsters for charter schools: The big lie “Togetherness” tells about race and education 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z This is why 19th-century reformers eager to expand political participation concentrated so much attention on expanding access to the liberal arts. Conservatives killed the liberal arts 2012-09-14T23:08:00Z More than just a conqueror and authoritarian leader, this astonishing figure was a social, educational and political reformer and visionary. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Its members, mostly white and middle class like many of the nineteenth- century reformers, focused intently on tolerance, natural living, and individual rights. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z The first instalment of a two-part ABC1 documentary, Whitlam takes the story of our greatest social reformer and gives it all the drama of a flu shot. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z That evolution might take more than five years, and will require the continued efforts of a coalition of reformers. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z What they associate with hard but successful work as a child—learning to spell—is more precious than the pointy-headed reformers ever realise. Je suis circonflexe 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z When a California judge recently struck down teacher-tenure, education reformers around the country cheered. Back against the blackboard 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It's always a difficult moment for a modern audience: the crusading reformer turning into an intellectual aristocrat. Public Enemy – review 2013-05-14T11:40:16Z Missionaries and social reformers began their work in zeal; children were taken from families and sent to boarding schools whose explicit mission was to annihilate the Lakotas’ language, religion and culture. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z A reformer who replaced a hodgepodge of feudal laws with a single code, stressing civil liberties and equality, that became a model for other nations? French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Unlike the mainstream reformers, whose churches included all members of a community, the Anabaptists insisted that only they were the elect, the true church of God, to the exclusion of all others. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Vucic, who has rebranded himself as a reformer taking Serbia towards membership of the European Union, said the accusations were "stupid". The minister, his mentor and the fight against a suspect system in Serbia 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z To reformers like Hart, the relationship between the chain stores, the marketing companies and the cruise lines feels a little insular. Cruise ships have returned to Seattle — is that a good thing? Here’s a primer on the issues facing the cruise industry 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Or Cromwell himself, who may sympathize with the Protestant reformers, but is frankly impatient with their methods — and incredulous that Tyndale won’t take the expedient tactic of supporting Henry’s divorce. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z There were no institutions for reformers to reform: no councils, no unions, no guilds, no professional bodies, few schools, few hospitals worth the name; in many places, no roads. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z That’s an old complaint, long shared by ballet insiders, experts and reformers. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The United States would try to be a good neighbor to the world, sending humanitarian aid and disaster relief, expressing support for democratic reformers and trying to shape its security environment however it could. How Can the U.S. Fix Its Foreign Policy? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z By the time of her death she had become one of the Victorian era's most celebrated social reformers. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z We thought he was one of us, a reformer. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z These made it much easier for reformers to exchange ideas with one another and with mass audiences. Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Pathologizing the system as a whole, reformers insist on drastic reorganization, on drastic methods of teacher accountability. Stop Humiliating Teachers 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z At the time, taking children’s stories seriously — by “writing about children as children alone meant taking sides with the reformers,” Mr. Levy writes. ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Instead, reformers continued to embrace a wide range of rationales for changing abortion law. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Alexander Gorsky, who directed the company from 1900 to 1924, was an enthusiastic artistic reformer, influenced both by Stanislavsky's theories of drama and by the work of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z If the court were to void the individual mandate, it would put healthcare reformers in a box. Crucial issues await Supreme Court 2011-10-03T01:42:00Z Advisory group English Heritage said the building also was significant for its links to Victorian social reformer Joseph Rogers, the workhouse's medical officer. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T13:33:29Z Around 1862, the Unitarian minister and teetotaling social reformer Henry Solly began to fret about men’s penchant for the “demon drink.” Heads Up : Britain’s Working Men’s Clubs Succumb to Modern Life 2014-04-15T20:59:22Z Garnier’s win shocked the establishment, Mr. Mead said, but worked with the emperor’s effort to cast himself as a reformer. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z With well-practiced restraint, Peri listens to them complain about the poor, the religious fanatics, the democratic reformers — in other words, about anyone who might imperil the fragile privilege of their lives. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Some figures, like Buddha and Gandhi, are well known, but he also focuses on poets, artists and social reformers. Paperback Row 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z “The reformers of the 1970s tried to wrest the presidential nomination away from insiders and to bestow it on rank-and-file partisans,” the authors write. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Early in the pandemic, when many turned to sourdough starters and puzzles, Ms. Levi bought a reformer. Is This the Most Expensive Pilates Class? 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The reformer Alexander Yakovlev discovered, once the K.G.B. archives were opened, the casual way in which Soviet leaders under Stalin signed death warrants for hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens, before being executed themselves. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Chabannes has betrayed both the Catholic crown forces and the reformers, and is in grave danger of losing his head. "The Princess of Montpensier": A delicious French bodice-ripper 2011-04-09T01:01:00Z But the movie also is drawing criticism from those who think reformers like Rhee are heading in the wrong direction. Film director Davis Guggenheim hopes to reveal inconvenient truths about schools 2010-09-22T23:09:00Z Macneal deftly paints her fictional heroine into the colorful lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, those radical reformers, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who strove to reinvigorate the arts. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Nineteenth century clergyman and dietary reformer Sylvester Graham advocated hard mattresses, open windows, fresh fruits and vegetables, pure drinking water, and cheerfulness at meals. Low in fat and moderate in sugar, these homemade graham crackers bring on warm childhood memories 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Only after the Industrial Revolution, when reformers expressed concerns over the cleanliness of crowded living arrangements, did sleep become a “privatized” affair. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Nowadays, it often involves some pretty slick apparatus – for instance, the strange machine known as a reformer – but mat classes are equally effective, and vastly cheaper, and these are mostly what I did. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Four men died, and with them went the hopes of would-be Cuba-policy reformers who were optimistic that then-President Bill Clinton would loosen sanctions on the island. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He established himself as a reformer in the 1980s, enough for Gorbachev to ask him, unsuccessfully, to be prime minister of the Soviet Union. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z In the 1920s reformers shifted their moral zeal to the scourge of alcohol. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z As the federal programs stalled, psychologists, neuroscientists, pediatricians, education reformers, and journalists began looking at the lives of children in a different way. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Rather than offer imprecations against capitalists or deluded “reformers,” Dabiq jeers at “crusaders,” “apostates,” Jews, the countries of Iran and Saudi Arabia, and other strands of Islam. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Boehner’s cohort fashioned themselves as reformers determined to make Congress a better place. The Divided Mind and Politics of John Boehner 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Twelve to 15 new workouts are uploaded per month, a combination of reformer and mat Pilates classes. Is This the Most Expensive Pilates Class? 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Like all early reformers, he was a political authoritarian of the highest order. The political Bible, part 3: how Christian Britain came to accept democracy 2011-08-22T07:00:01Z The Death of Convict Leasing In the North, the prison abolition movement went viral, embracing not only workers’ organizations, sympathetic rural insurgents and prisoners, but also widening circles of middle-class reformers. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Thanks to well-organized civic reformers and "church ladies" brandishing crucifixes, the threat of systematic censorship loomed. How Hollywood scandal was born 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “Sorry, but as they used to say, ‘Money makes the world go ’round,’ and in this instance it may wobble in the direction that the new reformers like. Campbell Brown has a new education-focused site: Is it news or advocacy? 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Almost under her breath, she added, “He was a reformer.” Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z A 2012 New York Times feature that asked "Who Made That Granola?" credits Dr. James Caleb Jackson, "a health reformer who believed illness was rooted in the stomach." How did "granola" became a personality trait? 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Progressive reformers and settlement workers were the architects and planners of racial segregation in northern cities. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z They shuddered at the thought of Bernie Sanders, democratic socialist, for his perceived radicalism and dismissed Elizabeth Warren, capitalist reformer, for her vendetta against mike. Did Mike Bloomberg waste $500 million running for president? We’re about to find out. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z “What if reformers humanized an institution they could and should have eradicated?” The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z "If you ask me what I am, I'm a reformer, and I support reformers," Feinberg, also chairman of Chicago-based Maxim Revenue Management Solutions, said in an interview Monday. Kirk report calls state's debt 'unsustainable' 2011-10-11T11:00:00Z Just like the previous century was devastated by world reformers and redeemers, by ideological movements with magical formulas, this one is dominated by various types of fanatics. ‘Fanaticism is the plague of the 21st century’: Israeli author Amos Oz fears for the future 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Between the two world wars, reformers in the eugenics movement justified the involuntary sterilization of tens of thousands of working-class women as a measure to reduce the birthrate of the “socially inadequate.” Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Even more nuance is missing from later Soviet history, including the paradoxical figure of the reformer Nikita Khrushchev. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The reformer who diagnosed the health of a planet headed for eight billion people suddenly faced the prospect of his own extinction event because of an enlarged heart. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The reformers and the journalists didn’t know that the foyer, the fire escape, and the rooftop were stretches of urban beach. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z We moved him out of another group home and into a “lifesharing” program in the Berkshires, run by devotees of the esotericist and social reformer Rudolf Steiner. Becoming Disabled 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Their tumultuous marriagedrives a compelling plot and illustrates the novel’s lyrical themes of freedom and transcendence, which were preoccupations of 19th-century social reformers and thinkers like the Howes. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman Waiting for Superman The educational reformer Geoffrey Canada with students in a documentary on public schools. | 'Waiting for Superman': Students Caught in the School Squeeze 2010-09-23T23:28:00Z For the views of some of history’s deepest thinkers and social reformers, I would highly recommend a book by an old colleague and dear friend in Germany, Johanna Wothke. Animal Doctor: How pet owners, and other animals, grieve a loss 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Around the year 1500, the church reformer Martin Luther described Jews as a “brood of vipers.” This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z An iconography of misère may have first appeared among illustrators in famine-stricken Ireland, which became, for British and French social reformers, “the very paradigm of misery in the 19th century.” When Misery Becomes a Subject for Art 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Progressive reformers and settlement workers were the architects of segregation in northern cities. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z If you've never done Pilates on a reformer machine, let me conjure up the picture for you. Should you consider training more than once a day? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z A former Alabama governor who entered politics as a reformer after his father’s assassination but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “I wanted to hear their stories not as a journalist or reformer but simply as the curious recipient of whatever they wanted to tell me of their life,” he writes. David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of Their Crimes 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The dream scenario is possible: that the 2012 election gives Medicare reformers a mandate to put the program on permanently stable footing. Fact-Checking the Obama Campaign's Defense of its $716 Billion Cut to Medicare 2012-08-16T05:46:39Z During England’s Civil War, the more fanatical reformers labeled any festivities “a mark of the antichrist.” Review | Christmas: Holy day, holiday or nostalgic wish? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z A group of populist reformers from up north arrived in Alabama in November 1894 with a radical plan. A Southern Town That’s Been Holding On to Its Charm, for More Than a Century 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In the book, we talk about how Japan’s more successful modernization drive starting in the 1860s was partly inspired by Chinese reformers’ talk of fuqiang. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z Now an advocate for curbing the influence of money in elections, Mr. Pearl is presented in Ms. Pelosi’s film as a reformer with deep access in Washington. Alexandra Pelosi Muses on the Donors She Convinced to Talk Candidly in Her New Film 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z To hear the beautiful speeches, political speeches, that the reformers make, at a time when most people were uneducated, is wonderful. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Margaret, whose fealty to decorum never seems to waver—even as she gets a letter from a prominent reformer of the day, Margaret Sanger—scoffs at the idea. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The House Is on Fire 2012-10-22T12:01:24Z On the other side, reformers argue for capping payments to farmers, which The Washington Post recently described as an "expensive agricultural safety net," and restricting payment eligibility. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Each decision must be reviewed by a second tribunal, a step reformers say is superfluous and should be eliminated. Pope orders review of annulment process to simplify procedure 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Like many reformers, Mrs. Lee longs for a North Star. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The right to vote is by far the biggest change introduced by Abdullah, considered a reformer, since he became the country's de facto ruler in 1995 during the illness of King Fahd. Saudi king: Women can vote in 2015 2011-09-25T16:21:00Z Conditions there were notably harsh and it became a target for later Victorian reformers such as Louisa Twining and Joseph Rogers. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T21:15:31Z But a perusal of the AP photo archives indicates it's hard to find a world leader or leading reformer who hasn't spent time hearing from Bono. AP PHOTOS: Bono's many brushes with greatness 2012-06-18T17:07:46Z The reformers began excising the prayers for the messiah and a return to Palestine. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Coppers, that is, along with thieves and the occasional goo-goo, or reformer. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z “Hate is a doer, a fixer, a trailblazing reformer. Your collection of hates is the most precious thing you own. You will be remembered by the breadth, strength and tempered edge of your hatreds.” A.A. Gill, British columnist and food critic with an acid wit, dies at 62 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Medicare reformers just might win this debate It’s only been a few days since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. Fact-Checking the Obama Campaign's Defense of its $716 Billion Cut to Medicare 2012-08-16T05:46:39Z And like some other writers before her, Kidd has transformed the story to make Jesus the naive tool of more violent reformers. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Foxx, who had been seen by many as a reformer, will remain under scrutiny, including for text messages and emails she sent regarding the case that were obtained by the Tribune. The Jussie Smollett saga: a look into Chicago's broken criminal justice system 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Henry had no interest in the teachings of the continental reformers, and he intended only to replace the authority of the Pope with his own. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z It was a Hindu reformer, Swami Vivekananda, who first introduced yoga to a larger audience. Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Thanks to crafty public relations management, Mohammed until recently enjoyed an image as a progressive reformer and staunch American ally. Why one man’s disappearance captured the outrage and media attention that war has not 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Robert Owen, a British mill-owner and reformer, treated private property, along with organised religion and marriage, as a social scourge. Short-lived, much loved 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Together they deepen our understanding of the growing number of young people from largely poor, urban and minority communities who are stuck on what reformers are calling "pathways to prison." Anna Deavere Smith takes on 'school-to-prison pipeline' in new show 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Luther and fellow reformer Philipp Melanchthon are buried inside just under the pulpits. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It was a claim that has resonated with moral reformers to this very day. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z To get the Supreme Court to decide a case took effort that went all the way down to the grass roots of African American society, and to the white reformers who supported their efforts. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z It would be unfair, reformers argued, to subject students to words such as “regatta” that were culturally unfamiliar or introduce aspects of ethnicity, language, family life or religion that might upset them. Why do we tolerate the lifeless SAT and ACT? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Crime is not new in Loach's work, and characters in past films, though not explicitly here, clearly believe in the dictum of the French anarchist and social reformer Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that property is theft. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z He was seen as a digital reformer, someone in touch with a younger generation — naturally enough, being part of it. An Arnault, in Private and in Public 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z These were angry young reformers who explored new ways of living in defiance of the horrendous design standards of the age as revealed in the 1851 Great Exhibition. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z “As social reformer, popular leader, political thinker and family man, Gandhi was fundamentally shaped by his South African experience,” he writes. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Brill argues that reformers ended up creating a new aristocracy even more entrenched than the one it supplanted. The Cry of the Centrist: In ‘Tailspin,’ Steven Brill Bemoans a Polarized America 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Yet the hall, whose ownership is hotly disputed, is also a rallying point for land-use reformers protesting the eviction of impoverished tenants from the estates of wealthy landowners. Review: ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ Pits the Church Against a Populist Gathering Place 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z William Booth’s famous poverty maps, which the social reformer used to catalogue affluence and indigence in late Victorian London, don’t extend this far south. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Topping the list is the grandfatherly effigy of the influential British philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham — incorporating his skeleton. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The decision not to entirely fictionalise the island was deliberate: it isn’t renamed, and there is a reference to its former owner, Frederick Charrington, a 19th-century social reformer who created a community for recovering alcoholics. Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything' 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The reforms of Martin Luther, for example, advanced with help from the newly invented printed press; a Muslim reformer today might well benefit from the rise of electronic communications. Thoughts on its future 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z He painted a portrait of the great reformer, illustrated some of his texts and used some of his own favourite themes to further the cause. Cranach and His Time ? review 2011-03-08T13:59:01Z In trying to simplify the system, the reformers ended up complicating it. David Crystal: the story of English spelling 2012-08-23T13:00:01Z They advised Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, became gurus to reformers in post-Communist Eastern Europe and elsewhere and inspired others in China, India and the rest of Asia. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z William Tyndale – a political authoritarian, like all early reformers – was burnt at the stake. The political Bible, part 3: how Christian Britain came to accept democracy 2011-08-22T07:00:01Z While reformers and repeal advocates saw abortion in terms of public health and rights, opponents framed the issue in terms of human life, the “sacred” life of the fetus. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Idolatrous art, claimed the devout reformers, perverted the Christian faith into a pagan cult. What makes art a target for attack? 2013-07-08T16:23:22Z From that intimate knowledge of the reformer’s sensibility, he was able to craft a right that might lure liberty-minded defectors from the left. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Within the hour, he tweets “thoughts and prayers,” a rather institutionalist tweet for an avowed reformer. Rep. Matt Gaetz wants you to know who he is, and his plan is working 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery is devoted to social reformers. London’s Legacy in the Slave Trade 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The horrors of the Civil War had shattered the peaceful vision social reformers had promulgated earlier in the century of humanity’s perfection through right living and self-control. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Jimmy McNulty of “The Wire” “swears off the twin compulsions of booze and police work; he goes back to both, while the rest of ‘The Wire’s’ most zealous reformers find themselves corrupted.” Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z It was not by chance that the late-Victorian reformers and their 20th-century liberal successors turned to the state to address the shortcomings of the market. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z But it's unlikely for the high-minded concepts Dionne preaches or the group of fledgling reformers he embraces to have much of an impact. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Styling himself a reformer even as he clung to the declining patrician caste system, he wrote blistering essays about the men who could elevate him to power. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Some of the women in the exhibition wrote themselves into history books — including suffragists and social reformers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the investigative journalist Nellie Bly. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Dix was a social reformer whose tireless efforts led to the establishment of the nation’s first public hospitals for people with mental illnesses and disabilities. In West Virginia, a moving, respectful tour of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z It is perhaps true that Bebbe Grillo and, perhaps, Al Franken, are not in their heart of hearts comedians, but, actually, reformers – enlightened bureaucrats who ache to bring honesty and improvement to the system. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z Once Stanton met reformer Susan B. Anthony, the two became a formidable team. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Levi describes her technique as “athletic Pilates,” meaning she incorporates traditional equipment — reformers, boxes, rings and more — but adds more oomph. Is This the Most Expensive Pilates Class? 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z She wove a tale of women reformers who “resolved to visit ‘the houses’ and learn who it was that supported them, and then afterward to ostracize them.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z This “Woman” is dense with people and events, covering everything from Puritan poets to the pill to Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head; featuring reformers, revolutionaries and reactionaries both famous and obscure. ‘Woman’ Is an Ambitious Attempt to Capture Four Centuries of Being Female 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Some reformers suggested using herbs, prayer, cranial surgery and exercise as remedies, but most cases of insanity were considered hopeless. Chains, Whips and Misery: Studying and Preserving Old ‘Lunatic’ Asylums 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This account of the battles over immigration across four decades is a quasi-morality tale in which tolerant reformers triumph over bigoted obstructionists. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The book follows linguistic pioneers who helped modernize the Chinese script and language, including a Chinese Muslim poet, a computer engineer and an exiled political reformer. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z He was a reformer, pursuing miscarriages of justice. Meet the magician behind Sherlock Holmes 2011-11-13T04:57:31Z Charles Booth was a British social scientist and reformer who, from 1886 to 1903, undertook a massive investigation called “Life and Labour of the People in London.” Map Quests 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z An Old Guard Ignored It would be overly simplistic to interpret all of this as merely a conflict between reformers and traditionalists. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z But despite the efforts of reformers, both past and present, the most frequently assigned titles have never represented America's diverse student body. Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z But Oliver claimed that Bin Salman is actually “far from the political reformer that he is being presented as” and used a number of examples to show this, including their “absolutely brutal war on Yemen”. John Oliver: Trump and Bin Salman are 'similar in some of the worst ways' 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z There are countless deifications, myth cults, religious reformers, mystery rituals and theologically inspired radicals in the first century. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z Ever the reformer, he was also drawn to the notion that landscape architecture could serve various social engineering purposes, providing respite from teeming cities, say, or forcing people of varied backgrounds to mix and mingle. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z On The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asked Representative Lucy McBath, who ran for Congress as a gun reformer—and won—in the conservative Georgia district once represented by Newt Gingrich. Lucy McBath on the “Religion” of Guns in America 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Preckwinkle, who ran as a reformer, faced criticism for hiring O'Sullivan, who according to an inspector general's report had been fired from a previous county job for falsifying his time cards. Cook Co. worker quits over resume questions 2011-10-07T23:30:00Z The dread of social upheaval continued to haunt the Reformation as more and more reformers and would-be prophets openly questioned the established truths and challenged the authority of the powers that be. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z It’s now an excellent museum displaying original paintings, manuscripts and other Luther-era items, including his pulpit, famous portraits of Luther and the other reformers by Lucas Cranach and Luther’s original German Bible translations. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In Freakonomics, Levitt presents Duncan as a do-gooder and a reformer whose “allegiance was with the children, not with the teachers and their unions.” Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: Corporate shill? 2012-06-16T15:59:00Z Hafstein was a reformer who urged the people of Iceland to reclaim the glory of the saga years. In Iceland, a Literary Tour Explores Rich History 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Contrast their experience to that of Rhode Island, where Medicaid reformers made significant headway due to a block grant-like waiver from the feds. Mitt Romney Outlines His Plan to Replace Obamacare 2012-06-21T03:27:49Z And he has risen to the role of mentor by the time a bright young reformer named Gorbachev comes along. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Anger over the handling of the abuse crisis has fueled calls by reformers for a more democratic church. Irish Catholics flee the church 2013-03-26T23:09:00Z That’s why Christian Stückl, the Passion Play’s longtime director and relentless reformer, knew something was up on the day he noticed a short-haired boy peering at rehearsals from the doorway of a nearby garage. ‘It’s My Tradition Too’: A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters: architects and landlords, capitalists and unionists, reformers and traditionalists, visionaries and charlatans. America’s Most Famous Street 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The reformers shared, perhaps even anticipated, this hunger: so that in effect, what the author really resents is their failure to buck the trend or to provide more sophisticated living styles. Review: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ by Jane Jacobs 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It is a powerful statue, with Jesus graphically portrayed with rigor mortis-stiffened limbs, mouth open and carved blood oozing from wounds – it was that power that the Protestant reformers found so dangerous. Tate show charts history of violence against art 2013-07-05T15:42:48Z I browsed thousands of photographs taken by social reformers and charity organizations, hoping to find these young women, but they failed to appear. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Even in the Putin era, dissenters until recently consisted mostly of ardent human rights workers and legal reformers. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z The most interesting aspect of Krist’s book is the battle between upright uptown reformers, who wished to rid New Orleans of sin and corruption, and downtown denizens, who relished the town’s permissive mores. Book Review Podcast: 'Empire of Sin' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z For Whigs, the way forward was to offer reform, just enough to detach the middle classes from their alliance with working-class reformers and so hopefully to prevent an explosion. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z Whether Jane Jacobs is right or wrong, the first big efforts to do something about our cities are not conspicuously successful; and the reformers are already worrying about the reactions to the increasingly visible inadequacies. Review: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ by Jane Jacobs 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Compare this to the election of 1912, when there were three genuine constitutional reformers — Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene V. Debs — running against the most able defender of the Old Order, William Howard Taft. The Nation’s Founders, Michael J. Fox and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Such experiences deeply affected Dickens' character, his views as a social reformer and his writing. Book-It stages 'Great Expectations' 2011-02-10T20:55:04Z All this forced mainstream reformers back to the role of tradition in making decisions about Christian belief. The King James Bible's language lessons 2011-02-18T12:59:49Z There are two factors English reformers need to consider about their future. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z The social reformer and suffragist Edna Brush Perkins, in her marvellous travelogue “The White Heart of Mojave,” wrote about the romance of wandering in the desert, and, potentially, disappearing into it: The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In this show, reformers would be thwarted, crooks rewarded and ordinary people ground down by the system. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Witnessing this event inspired in poet and educational reformer Matthew Arnold a visceral revulsion that Andrew Sullivan would find familiar. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Goldstein begins in the early 19th century, when American classrooms were presided over by “coarse, hard, unfeeling men,” in the words of one early reformer, exemplified best by Washington Irving’s inept, doomed Ichabod Crane. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The second son, Saif, fêted by Tony Blair as a reformer, described his hobbies as "reading, painting, working out, falconry and keeping pet tigers". The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z Aspiring reformers from across Europe flocked to the city to learn from Calvin how it was done, and to spread his teachings to their native lands. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Respectable reformers such as Luther and Calvin, and the conservative kings and princes who backed them, struggled mightily to contain the revolutionary passions set loose by the Reformation, but not always successfully. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z And given the unfairness and inhumanity, it is difficult to contain one’s 21st-century impatience with the maddeningly slow consciousness-raising of the 19th century’s white reformers. ‘The Invention of Wings’: waking to the evils of slavery 2013-12-31T22:20:55Z “There were decades of deferred maintenance,” said Mr. Carr, who edited the eighth volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, the social reformer who designed Central Park with the English architect Calvert Vaux. Central Park, Bucolic but Aging, Is in a Quest for $300 Million 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Boleyn's own support for the reformers also significantly advanced Protestantism's progress in England. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The reformers believe that getting doctors to decide how NHS budgets are spent is essential. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z Their plight inspired social reformers - including a neighbor, Charles Dickens, who likely used the building as inspiration for his novel "Oliver Twist." Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z McElwee begins by calling the New Atheist movement “a rather disturbing trend” in a country “whose greatest reformer” – Martin Luther King, Jr. – “was a Reverend.” The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z A reform plan that takes these critiques into account loses its simplicity, and tax reformers in general like to increase, not reduce, the simplicity of the code. How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform 2012-05-14T11:35:22Z For instance, there’s Ethical Culture, a humanist movement founded in the 1870s by the reformer Felix Adler, focusing on “deeds, not creeds.” Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z Most western analysts cling to the notion that Gorbachev and Yeltsin were brave, if misguided, reformers, but democrats at heart. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z One would-be reformer, the dietician Bertha Wood, thought that highly seasoned foods made Jewish people nervous. Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman?s ?97 Orchard? Is a Culinary History 2010-07-27T18:33:00Z In the 16th century, Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers translated the Bible from an already existing Greek text into the languages of common people. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Gluck was that great reformer, most famously returning drama to its eloquent personalized essence with the help of the Orpheus myth. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Segregationists seethed, and racial reformers were galvanized to show the truth of Jim Crow. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z These included the multiple and frequent 19th-century Protestant revivals, which affected New York City as much as the countryside, and drew all manner of urban redeemers and reformers. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2011-04-22T21:09:10Z The three-volume book also pays homage to reformers who campaigned for legislation to protect laborers, including children, exposed to toxic metallic ingredients needed to induce bright colors. 6 Design Books That Celebrate a World of Artifacts 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Then the riots of the ’60s scarred Detroit more deeply than most cities, followed by an endless parade of self-proclaimed reformers turned municipal grifters who bled the city dry. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z If the state brings the Scandinavian model to California, it is going to require something that will, even if they support the model, make both prison officials and reformers unhappy: California prison guards are dying too young. How Norway (yes, Norway) can help 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Whitmire has spent five decades in the Texas Legislature, where he has helped drive tough-on-crime policies while also casting himself as a reformer. US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire lead crowded field in Houston mayor’s race 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Medvedev, once seen as a liberal reformer but now an arch-hawk as deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, mocked the brewer in a typically profane posting on Telegram. Russian ex-president mocks Carlsberg after brewer says its business was stolen 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z A new law to impose a first-in-the-nation 11% state excise tax on firearm and ammunition sales may further drive a wedge between practical gun owners and reformers. Column: California lawmaker motivated by text from daughter during school shooting threat 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The role of reformer suits Abouzeid, a big, bearded man prone to bright ties and sweater vests who was born in Egypt and moved to the U.S. when he was 8. King County oversight chief wants radical reforms in American policing 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z To others, he is a reformer - a man seeking to diversify the economy and boost Gabon's international status with an ambitious environmental agenda. Ali Bongo: Who is Gabon's president arrested in army coup? 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Uzbekistan has no strong opposition politicians or groups but Mirziyoyev has styled himself as a reformer, opening its economy to the outside world and easing the authoritarian policies of his predecessor. Uzbekistan's President Mirziyoyev appoints daughter as adviser 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z He has sought to portray himself as a reformer, but many accuse him of being even more repressive. Zimbabwe’s election extends to a second day after long ballot delays. Some slept at polling stations 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z He has sought to portray himself as a reformer, but many accuse him of being even more repressive than the man he helped remove from power. Polls open in Zimbabwe as the president known as ‘the crocodile’ seeks a second and final term 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Biundo told the Lexington Herald-Leader “it’s time for a conservative reformer as governor that will pass popular initiatives like school choice.” School choice advocacy groups hammer away at Kentucky’s Democratic governor in campaign ads 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z “In law enforcement, in criminal justice, they overtake these prosecutor offices,” Mr. DeSantis claimed of liberal reformers, “and the average person ends up less safe as a result of that.” DeSantis Tweaks His Messaging and Tactics After a Tough Campaign Stretch 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India. Bindeshwar Pathak: India's 'Toilet Man' who made urinating safely a reality 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z "Every time the son of a dictator succeeds the dictator, the angle of the story is always that he's a potential reformer, he's a potential moderate, he's a potential progressive, he's Western-educated," Morgenbesser said. Like strongman, like son? Cambodia's Hun Manet makes political debut 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Financial reformers in the Democratic Party oppose allowing banks to be “too big to fail.” US consumer watchdog warns no more 'rubber stamp' for bank mergers 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z As a result, he said, Mr. Trump proved to be more of a reformer than a revolutionary. Vivek Ramaswamy vows to take Trump’s agenda to the next level 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Enter the “vacation school,” which early 20th century reformers touted as an antidote to the boredom and danger of the streets. Opinion: How we got interminable summer breaks from school — and what we can do about it 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Another came in May from a Texas education reformer, according to reporting from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Virginia’s Youngkin surpasses previous governors’ annual fundraising records in a single quarter 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Coming at a time when Czech reformers were seeking to establish "socialism with a human face", the novel was a first step in Kundera's path from party member to exiled dissident, a moniker he disdained. Novelist Kundera mixed philosophy, irony to explore human nature 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But the reformers fell short of achieving greater flexibility, which requires giving decision-making power to commanders in the field. Prigozhin May Be Gone, but Not the Failings He Ranted About 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z This year, the prosecutor races in northern Virginia might shed light on whether suburban voters are still committed to criminal justice reform after years of Republican criticism that reformers are soft on crime. Prosecutor Biberaj wins reelection nomination in Virginia Democratic primary 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z So sanitary reformers began calling for an overhaul of urban spaces, including improvements in ventilation. The New War on Bad Air 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Salman, the de facto ruler of the nation, is a ruthless dictator, a bold reformer or both, depending on whom you ask. Pariah or partner? U.S. navigates complicated, contradictory relationship with Saudi Arabia 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z He embodied multitudes of contradictory personas: The reformer who promised to liberalize the country, but then governed like a populist. How Silvio Berlusconi Changed Italy, for Better or Worse 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling denying women the right to an abortion, we need reformers to speak up more than ever. The long struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment | Op-Ed 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z On the other side, progressive reformers can also be ideologically rigid and driven by emotion, just like their opponents. Opinion: What happened to criminal justice reform? 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z We have an opening to wage a new war on bad air, experts said, one that will be aided by tools and technologies that were not available to 19th-century sanitary reformers. The New War on Bad Air 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Juvenile justice reformers might otherwise be celebrating the June 30 shutdown of the last two youth prisons in the once-sprawling 10,000-inmate system, except for their deep anxiety about what comes next. California is closing its last youth prisons. Will what replaces them be worse? 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z By many accounts, the children in today’s group homes are experiencing care that is worse than the group home experience reformers meant to eradicate. How California’s big effort to help abused children left some with nowhere to go 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Instead, they too are casting themselves as reformers. Reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia face primary challenges 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z It should be emphasized that calls for reform within the Church were nothing new, and Luther certainly saw himself as a would-be reformer at this stage, not a revolutionary. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Chile suffered its share of chaos as reformers tried to seize political power there. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z However, as early as the mid-seventh century BCE, the religious reformers who promoted the centralized worship of Yahweh and obedience to the laws of Moses had clearly gained the upper hand. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But that was the best chance drug reformers had had in decades to force a total reset of how society confronts drug addiction. The dream of decriminalizing is dead, and more from WA’s drug debate 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Incumbents say the challengers’ effort to paint themselves as reformers rings hollow. Reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia face primary challenges 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Since the founding of the country, who’ve been more effective: reformers or radicals? Opinion: Why it matters that Johnny doesn't know history 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Many officials were sensitive to the criticisms of social activists and reformers, and some politicians came from their ranks. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carolingian reformers took inspiration from the monks of Ireland, who brought with them both their ascetic style of religious practice and their handsomely copied books of classical literature. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z As a politician, he portrayed himself as a reformer offering an alternative to Pakistan’s entrenched political dynasties. Who Is Imran Khan? 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “So when you’ve got these challengers saying, ‘I am a true reformer,’ - well, what have you done?” Reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia face primary challenges 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z “He is in a completely unique position to change how so many people eat every day,” said Alice Waters, the California restaurateur and agricultural reformer, whom Charles once taught to weave a hedgerow. The King Has Definite Ideas About Food. But Will Britain Dig In? 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The creation of urban parks was the goal of reformers who saw green spaces as a solution to the dirt and chaos of the city. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Crusades had been launched by popular popes viewed as reformers and men of virtue. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Tenure “reformers” typically describe their goals as depriving undeserving layabouts of an unwarranted privilege. Column: Red-state efforts to dumb down their universities will provoke a brain drain 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Some reformers have sought to moderate that zeal. Opinion: Is God on the side of blasphemy laws? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Mirziyoyev, 65, has been praised at home and abroad as a liberal reformer for abandoning the previous leadership's isolationist policies and police state approach. Uzbeks vote on allowing president to extend time in power 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century reformers also insisted the poor not become dependent on charity. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Under Ibn Yasin’s direction the Almoravids became zealous reformers committed to imposing his version of Islam on the people of the Maghreb. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He also helped elect reformers to the school board, a body over which he had no direct control. Richard Riordan, former Los Angeles mayor, has died at 92 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z On hand to share tactics: members of the Teamsters and United Auto Workers — unions whose upstart reformers have ousted national leaders deemed insufficiently aggressive. How a stripper, a barista and an electrician ended up at a 'Troublemakers School' for L.A. labor activists 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Macron has staked his reputation as a reformer on the pension changes, which he said were needed to avoid billions of euros of deficit each year by the end of the decade. France's Macron promises government action plan in next 100 days 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z They questioned the wisdom of reformers like Smith who disagreed with the favorable-balance emphasis of mercantilism. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The reformers were also interested in creating a thoroughly Christianized society by distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate warfare. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Bakewell is particularly fond of Erasmus, who was “repelled by the aggression of Luther,” his fellow Protestant reformer. Review | Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z At Labor Notes’ Chicago convention, Ham, who is now Local 9588’s organizing chair, was inspired by Starbucks and Amazon workers who have launched independent unions, and by reformers who are transforming some traditional unions. How a stripper, a barista and an electrician ended up at a 'Troublemakers School' for L.A. labor activists 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The president has staked his reputation as a reformer on the pension changes, which he says are needed to avoid billions of euros of deficit each year by the end of the decade. France's Macron signs contested pension bill into law 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Middle-class reformers sought to improve society by altering personal behavior. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Much like the Byzantine emperors, who were religious reformers, the kings of Himyar publicly displayed their religious devotion. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the end, it is difficult to find any commonalities between the seminal religious reformer Luther and a secular business entrepreneur and political reactionary such as Mr. Musk. Opinion | Religion is a search for meeting. Twitter is not. 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z But the plan — labeled as a motion to “Depopulate and Decarcerate the Los Angeles County Jails” — drew criticism from justice reformers and law enforcement alike. Under pressure, Board of Supervisors pulls unpopular motion to decrease jail population 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Bragg campaigned for office as a progressive reformer. Who’s who in the Manhattan DA’s Donald Trump investigation 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z These reformers argued that learning should promote the welfare of the people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Temin further argued that “to mount a credible defense of democracy abroad, Washington and its partners would need to challenge authoritarian and authoritarian-leaning governments, not just bolster democratic reformers.” In a summit celebrating democracy, China sees an avenue for attack 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The heroes of my book are the reformers inside and outside of the system who are trying to change the culture from the bottom up. Prisoners Today, Neighbors Tomorrow 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z And for almost as many years, reformers have hoped to eradicate those gangs, going back to the Kolts Commission 30 years ago, which called for them to be “rooted out.” Column: Banning violent deputy gangs in the L.A. Sheriff’s Department is essential. But is it constitutional? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z “The enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century,” the social reformer Henry George complained in his 1879 bestseller, “Progress and Poverty,” “has no tendency to extirpate poverty.” Perspective | Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Trying to differentiate themselves from Chinese, Mongols, and Japanese, Koreans like the Silhak reformers emphasized the importance of maintaining a Korean identity based on Korean history and culture. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He was one of America's most Janus-faced leaders, a protean figure who could sincerely shift from the pragmatic reformer to the vengeful autocrat without any apparent qualms. Thoughtful pragmatist or unhinged bigot? Why experts are rethinking Nixon's psychopathology 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Hospice leaders, palliative care specialists, health care reformers and advocacy groups have worked for years to try to lower such numbers. Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z He was seen as an outsider and a natural reformer. Pope Francis at 10 years: He has made his mark, but early hope has faded 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z But he and a band of reformers modernized the economy, greatly reduced corruption and attracted billions in foreign investment. Opinion | Once hailed as a reformer, Mikheil Saakashvili languishes in prison 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Critics of the movement questioned why China was trying to change when the changes did not bring the military power reformers had promised. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Improving insurance access through the Affordable Care Act required an influx of legislative reformers inspired by the financial crisis of 2008. Opinion: How has American healthcare gone so wrong? 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z The Atlanta plan has drawn a broad “Stop Cop City” coalition, including criminal justice reformers, environmental advocates, antifa activists and others. A New Front Line in the Debate Over Policing: a Forest Near Atlanta 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z At the time, he was hailed as a reformer who had increased transparency and diversity in the department and instituted de-escalation training for officers. Chicago Police Superintendent Steps Down After Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Defeat 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The run-off election will also determine two other races that could allow reformers to claim a majority of seats on the UAW executive board. Close of voting nears in UAW presidential run-off election 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z What challenges to Catholic doctrine were introduced by other reformers? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The millionaire businessman is campaigning as a reformer with a reputation for fiscal prudence, promising a government that is more accountable to citizens. What you need to know about Nigeria’s historic presidential election 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z They write approvingly of the city’s most recent police chief, LeRonne Armstrong, a reformer who got the job after the previous chief, Anne Kirkpatrick, was fired for not effectively implementing court-mandated improvements. Review | Is police brutality just part of the job? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z He taught our organization and the state of Texas that strong and committed prison reformers could be Republicans. Opinion | Harry Whittington taught us prison reformers could be Republicans 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z She ran as an anticorruption reformer who promised to do away with the old, clubby ways of governing in Chicago. After Four Turbulent Years, Lori Lightfoot Seeks a Second Term as Chicago’s Mayor 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The complaints of reformers, including Las Casas, inspired the black legend, which claimed the Spanish were particularly cruel imperialists who abused their colonial subjects. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z “How can you be both a reformer and an enforcer of a rotted system built on unjust laws?” Caught in G.O.P.’s Cross Hairs, Mayorkas Faces Political Showdown Over Border Crisis 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Rama has portrayed himself as a reformer and as opposed to Russia’s war in Ukraine. How prosecutors say a top FBI agent sold his services overseas 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z From 2003, he spent three terms as prime minister, presiding over a period of steady economic growth and winning praise internationally as a reformer. Turkey's Erdogan still fighting for power after 20 years 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z It was a mission that earned him the ire of liberal reformers, even as he was elected with significant Black support. ‘We Are in Trauma’: Memphis Reels From the Latest of Many Blows 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Brazil, however, with its primarily agricultural economy, long resisted reformers’ calls for emancipation. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Huckabee Sanders, who describes herself as a conservative reformer, will speak from the state capital Little Rock after Biden's remarks on Tuesday before a joint session of Congress. Arkansas Gov. Huckabee Sanders to give Republican response to Biden's State of the Union 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Social Security “reformers” always tend to forget the realities faced by the vast majority of American workers. Column: The stupid and dishonest idea of raising the Social Security retirement age is back 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Ouellet was once considered a reformer within the Vatican on issues of abuse. Catholic cardinal twice accused of sexual assault is allowed to resign 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z The city took steps advocates called for in a “Reimagine Policing” initiative in 2021, and mirrored a set of policy changes reformers want all departments to implement immediately, known as “8 Can’t Wait.” Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z British housing reformer Octavia Hill was an advocate of this position. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Greene has tried to rebrand herself as a central figure in Republican Party and someone who can work with the party's hard-liners and reformers. "She sees herself on the short list for Trump's VP": Bannon reveals MTG's presidential aspirations 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z His Cabinet, a mix of young reformers and technocrats, has faced criticism over a lack of experience, while a planned new constitution he supported was overwhelmingly rejected by voters. Crime, inflation hammer support for Chile's Boric in tough first year 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z In 1868, fearing a repeat of China's fate at the hands of Western imperialists, reformers overthrew the military dictatorship of the Tokugawa Shogunate and set Japan on a course of high-speed industrialisation. Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But if Macron is forced to back down a second time, “the image of Macron as a reformer is over,” said Cautrès, the Sciences Po researcher. France’s ‘Black Thursday’ strikes disrupt schools, halt trains 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Some reformers tried to establish utopian communities based on these ideals. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In contrast with his staunchly conservative stance on the church’s moral teachings, the cardinal was a financial reformer who was recruited to the Vatican by Francis in 2014 and charged with overhauling its finances. Cardinal George Pell, convicted then acquitted of child sex abuse, dies at 81 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The right-wing renegades who put the House and the nation through 15 embarrassing ballots went to great lengths to present themselves as institutional reformers bent on bringing democracy and transparency back to the legislative process. Opinion | Will party unity tear Congress to pieces? 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Democratic leaders in the West celebrated Saakashvili as an inspiring democrat and effective reformer. Opinion | The world can’t allow the ex-president of Georgia to die in detention 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Police pursuit deaths often get less attention than controversies over the police use of force, but criminal justice reformers are very aware of them. Louisiana teens’ deaths put spotlight on police chases 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z How did nineteenth-century governments and reformers try to prevent the spread of disease in the industrial city? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The decision ushered in the era of Pope Francis, a reformer who has taken the papacy in a different direction, even as Benedict continued to live in the Vatican and occasionally opine from retirement. The significant — and controversial — statements that shaped Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z It also opened the door to Pope Francis, a progressive reformer with whom he shared an awkward, if decorous, cohabitation in a Vatican with two popes. Long before he was pope, the man who became Benedict was a central figure in the church. 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Central to what many call the “Ratzinger myth” was how this reformer became one of the church’s most conservative voices. Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The structure of regional Fed banks has long made reformers, both on the left and right, uncomfortable. Republican senators propose overhaul of Federal Reserve amid concerns about politics 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for criminal justice reformers, coming four months after California voters refused to end cash bail at the ballot box. Criminal justice panel says California should pay restitution to victims, ban some traffic stops 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Ramaphosa, a wealthy business executive and the last confidant of Nelson Mandela still active in government, has positioned himself as a reformer in a government ridden by scandals. South African president survives party vote amid cash-in-couch revelations 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z He was a constant reformer, but one who believed the best approach was a single step at a time so as not to scare people. After decades in California politics, Bob Hertzberg is hanging it up. Too bad there are term limits 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Father Ratzinger had sided with the Vatican II reformers on relaxing the central authority of Rome, curtailing its ability to censure theologians and dispensing with the Latin Mass, which he called “archaeological.” Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z While Jiang was not a liberal reformer, he is recalled as a more open-minded and tolerant ruler than Xi, and many mourners gathered outside his former residence near Shanghai on Thursday evening. China pledges to slowly exit ‘zero covid’ 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Those words framed his greater mission in 2002, when the civil rights attorney and a group of social reformers clashed with the NFL over its dreadful minority hiring record. Perspective | Football is America. We shouldn’t be satisfied with either. American reformers believe we’re just one clever policy tweak away from getting it — perhaps by instituting accountable care or “value-based” care. Opinion | In health care, America is the world’s indispensable nation 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Skilled at currying favor with Zhao and other gung-ho reformers then ascendant in Beijing, Mr. Jiang was promoted to Shanghai party secretary, the city’s top position, and also to the Politburo. China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z My only question about all these Democratic reformers is, why didn’t the Democrats start their reform programs earlier? Biden’s Democratic Party of the ‘strange’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The event sparked a bitter power struggle at the top of China's Communist Party between hard-line reactionaries and reformers. Jiang Zemin: Former Chinese leader dies aged 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Liberal reformers argued that teenage motherhood led to poverty, and they used the public attention to lobby for expanding reproductive health services and comprehensive sex education. Was She Ready to Be a Mother? A Judge Got to Decide. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z As reformers consider what types of changes we can make to live in a society further from AOL-Time Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader Joe's than closer to it, they must take their cues from Judge Pan. Won't somebody think of Stephen King? Antitrust law and the publishing world's mega-deal 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The country’s longest-serving coalition is seeking to regain its dominance after a shocking loss in 2018, but political reformers are aiming for a second surprise win. What to know ahead of Malaysia’s general elections 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “I’m proud to say I’m a reformer,” he said. The Los Angeles Sheriff conceded after a combative first term in office. 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “I’m not a politician. I’m not a bureaucrat. I’m a reformer,” Villanueva said. Column: A eulogy for Sheriff Alex Villanueva — you could have been so much more 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Nursing reformer Florence Nightingale was appointed as the first female member in 1907. Queen's legacy creates more diverse Order of Merit 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z A few months later, however, came the Anglo-Russian Convention, an agreement to divide up the country’s resources while propping up the shah and dooming the reformers. Reza Aslan on Tehrangeles, revolution and the death threats that sidelined his book tour 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In a 2017 Christmas address, Francis excoriated corrupted reformers who, “when they are quietly sidelined,” he said, “wrongly declare themselves martyrs.” A Vatican Auditor Says He Dug Up Too Much Dirt, and Was Buried 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He said a politician told him early on that you can be a reformer, or you can be re-elected. The Los Angeles Sheriff conceded after a combative first term in office. 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Gill campaigned as a progressive reformer, yet has a varied background, having worked as a senior policy advisor in the Department of Homeland Security under then-President George W. Bush. L.A. voters poised to select new city attorney, controller 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Even reformers are starting to wonder what they can reasonably expect of their most high-minded institutions. The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself? 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z It's not hard to understand why the powerful Texas Republican politicians — who take in millions in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry — would view outspoken reformers like Hidalgo and Menefee with alarm. How voter suppression and gerrymandering by the Texas GOP derails environmental justice 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z “Reformers often think that the average citizen is as interested and engaged and focused on political matters as the reformers are,” Pildes said. Does America Vote Too Much? 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z He appeared to be seeking to allay concerns after Liu and some other prominent reformers were dropped from the top ranks of leadership at a party congress last month. Hong Kong shares soar on hopes China COVID rules may ease 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He brought in a team of economic reformers who introduced more budget discipline and launched a war on corruption, although critics at the time said that crackdown was aimed mainly at his opponents. Nigeria's Obasanjo clinches unlikely Ethiopia truce 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The Chinese leader broke with precedent by securing a third term as party general secretary and elevated hard-line loyalists to top jobs in place of economic reformers. Economic ties with China take a backseat to national security 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z However, it does not make the policy changes that some reformers have sought — such as giving counties more home rule and removing tax earmarks, which dedicate taxes to a specific program or purpose. Voters can erase racist wording in Alabama Constitution 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z As of Thursday, two of Cardon's four crude distillations units were back in service and workers were trying to resume operations at the naphtha reformer after the blackout, three sources from the complex said. Venezuela's PDVSA controls fire at small refinery, restarts other plants from outage 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The elections wound up being a victory for pro-Western reformers, who have long resisted Russian influence within the former Soviet republic. New U.S. sanctions target Russian efforts to manipulate the politics in Moldova, a neighbor of Ukraine. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z I've always thought that some of the reformers and even the police union would have some common ground, especially when it comes to defining what the job of the cop is. More than two years after the George Floyd protests, police reform has stalled. What happened? 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z In response, local reformers embraced the idea of new publicly owned homes, boasting that soon Los Angeles would become “the nation’s first city free of bad housing.” L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z At times in the deposition, Caruso seemed to be walking a tightrope between his public image of empathetic reformer and his fiduciary duties as leader of a multibillion-dollar institution embroiled in high-stakes litigation. In secret testimony, Caruso was grilled about what USC knew about disgraced gynecologist 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z More than 100 years ago, urban reformers promoted staggered terms to ensure institutional memory on city councils composed of part-time, volunteer officials. Op-Ed: How to reform L.A. City Hall to avoid future corruption and scandal 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The moderate Democrat voted with Republicans against the law restricting dangerous vehicular pursuits by law enforcement, which reformers say is saving lives. WA Legislature races roil Whatcom swing district where Trump rallied 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Some reformers argue that such children should be slowed down, not accelerated, so they can get deeper into their lessons. Perspective | Program so accelerated that 8th-graders take AP Calculus. Will that work? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The presidency also used to have a two-term limit in the country's constitution, put in place by reformer Deng Xiaoping to prevent the rise of a Mao-like figure. China Party Congress: Xi Jinping to cement grip on power at historic meeting 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z But political insiders quickly began to sense Mr. Xi’s hard-line direction, especially after scornful comments in late 2012 about former Soviet reformers. ‘Uncle Xi’ to Exalted Ruler: China’s Leader Embodies His Authoritarian Era 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Still, analysts say, the views of any individual matter less nowadays as Xi has sidelined those seen as "reformers" in favour of his more state-driven and nationalistic economic policies. Xi set to open party congress at challenging time for China 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “Momentum is on the side of reformers,” he said. Charting the ‘California Effect’ on Tech Regulation 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Since his upset victory in 2018, when he ran as a progressive reformer, Villanueva has emerged as a polarizing figure who has been wrapped up in a steady stream of controversies. Your guide to the L.A. County sheriff election: Alex Villanueva vs. Robert Luna 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Political extortion was not what reformers intended when they created California’s system of direct democracy 111 years ago. Prop. 29 would stiffen requirements for California dialysis clinics. It's also political extortion 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Xi's elevation to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2007 fuelled hopes among liberals and western governments that he may be a reformer. Analysis: How China's Xi accumulated power, and why it matters in a third term 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “I don’t do lobbying for the sake of sounding smart or making the chamber look good, it is really about how can I help reformers make an argument within the system?” he said. In China, a European executive becomes an increasingly rare critical voice 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z He sees Mikhail Gorbachev as a foolish reformer who opened up the political system only to see the whole country collapse. Opinion | What the West is still getting wrong about the rise of Xi Jinping 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z He can provoke the left like a conservative populist, but also govern like a conservative reformer and lead like a president in times of crisis. Opinion | Unlike Trump, DeSantis is showing a populist can be presidential in a crisis 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Johnson and his fellow reformers would have cringed. Prop. 29 would stiffen requirements for California dialysis clinics. It's also political extortion 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Pennsylvania is an outlier in mandating life without parole for second-degree murder, and reformers argue that it violates constitutional protections against unduly cruel punishments. Fetterman’s Push for Clemency Becomes an Attack Line for Dr. Oz 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Many observers were proved wrong in predicting that Xi would become a reformer like his father, who oversaw the creation of the country’s first special economic zone in Shenzhen, a key step in China’s opening. Review | At stake in the U.S.-China rivalry: The shape of the global political order 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Prince Mohammed's initial image as a bold reformer was battered by the 2018 murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, at the hands of Saudi agents seen as close to MbS. Analysis: Saudi prince's Ukraine mediation signals 'useful' Russia ties - analysts 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It also shows her association with the leading reformers, writers and artists of the time. Elizabeth Gaskell's House exhibition explores links to Bronte 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Educated consumers can team up with environmental groups, scientists and government reformers to build a movement that demands that salmon farmers protect the environment and ensure the health of the fish they sell. Salmon farming’s dirty business 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z But reformers must avoid doing more harm than good. Opinion | One way to repair the Supreme Court 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z He has endorsed recommendations by prison reformers that the state can release more geriatric or rehabilitated prisoners without harming public safety. Oz, Fetterman both target suburbs in key Pa. Senate race 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Li, who has fought an uphill battle to keep the economy on an even keel while pushing limited changes, appears keen to leave his mark on the public memory as a reformer. Analysis: China poised to shake up economic leadership as reformers bow out 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Jenness Miller was among reformers who attacked the problem from the inside out. Perspective | Fashion fight: This reformer wanted to change the way women dressed 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z At other times he sounds like a frustrated reformer, annoyed at how some communities have been neglected and left behind. What kind of a King will Charles be? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z What they will not allow are reformers such as Bernie Sanders, who might challenge, however tepidly, their obscene accumulation of wealth and power. Can we stop pretending that America is a functioning democracy? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Regarding the Aug. 31 front-page obituary for Mikhail Gorbachev, “Soviet reformer oversaw crumbling of an empire”: Opinion | Gorbachev believed the world was worth saving 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Under the previous constitution, the top Knights and the Grand Master were required to have noble lineage, something reformers said excluded nearly everyone except Europeans from serving in top roles. Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Some reformers have pressed prime ministers to adopt a “two out, one in” rule to slim down the Lords. The House of Lords is a bloated relic. Boris Johnson could make it bigger. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Global reaction: Western leaders remembered Gorbachev as an honest reformer and hailed him as a visionary. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Election experts say similar structures arose elsewhere during the Progressive Era as reformers hoped a system of “mutual policing” would cut down on the influence of party machines on election outcomes. Abortion vote returns spotlight to obscure Michigan board 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z More liberal, pro-Western Russians say he was a great reformer who brought freedom to this country. Gorbachev: Little love for late Soviet leader in Russia's old empire 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev brought some of the academic reformers to his side. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Reagan nor Bush was convinced he was for real. How Reagan and Bush overcame skepticism to collaborate with Gorbachev. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The violence turned many intellectuals and reformers against him. Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Andropov took power in 1982 on the death of Leonid Brezhnev, who had for 18 years led Moscow through a gentle decline that reformers branded the "era of stagnation". Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z He also earned a diploma in agronomy and became a reformer, willing to challenge some tenets of a centralized economy. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In the balloting, the Communist Party leadership in Leningrad was turned out, pro-independence parties won in the Baltics, and Yeltsin, the radical reformer, triumphed in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z President Barack Obama praised him as a “reformer with much to do.” Malaysia’s imprisoned ex-PM Najib was once a political star 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He became prime minister in 2009 as a reformer but his term was tainted by the 1MDB scandal that sparked investigations in the U.S. and several other countries and caused his government’s downfall. Malaysia top court upholds ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s graft conviction 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Since the 1830s, abolitionists, led by journalist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison, had cast slavery as a national sin and called for its immediate end. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z As a politician, he painted a picture of himself as a reformer offering an alternative to the entrenched political dynasties. What We Know About Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Former Prime Minister 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Actually, Mr. Gorbachev’s power was waning, and he had passed the zenith of his influence as a reformer. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The former cricket captain, now styling himself as a pious anti-poverty reformer, spoke of his dream of building an "Islamic welfare state" where wealth was shared. Imran Khan: The cricket hero bowled out as Pakistan's PM 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z “He is bamboozling the reformers and the Western press by using all the ringing words we like to hear,” Mr. Safire wrote. Vadim V. Bakatin, the Last Chairman of the K.G.B., Dies at 84 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Thousands volunteered to care for the sick and wounded in response to a call by reformer Dorothea Dix, who was placed in charge of the Union army’s nurses. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The failed attempt comes after San Francisco voters in June recalled another prominent California criminal justice reformer, District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Recall election aimed at LA prosecutor fails to make ballot 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z But such special treatment, as well as the cozy relationship between top business and government officials, has also drawn public outcry from anti-corruption reformers and political opponents. South Korean president pardons Samsung heir for bribing predecessor 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z In Madison on Monday, Kleefisch touted herself as the “only proven conservative reformer” in the primary, while also keeping focused on Evers, a former state superintendent for schools. Kleefisch downplays Trump endorsement on final swing 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Popular, handsome and well spoken, he quickly became a leading figure among Moscow reformers, and he was seen as a future prime minister or even a successor to Mr. Gorbachev. Vadim V. Bakatin, the Last Chairman of the K.G.B., Dies at 84 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z The violence of the Indian Wars also sparked debate about policy regarding Native Americans, and led to the rise of reformers in the East determined to solve the "Indian problem" peacefully. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Hasn’t Sadr been a part of this political system since 2003 until today? And now he presents himself as a reformer?” Iraq crisis simmers as protesters shut parliament down 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Over the last decade, tech companies and education reformers have pushed schools to adopt software systems that can catalog and categorize students’ classroom outbursts, absenteeism and learning challenges. A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Three years after her death, the military overthrew her social reformer husband, then-President Juan Domingo Peron. TV series focuses on eerie afterlife of Argentina's 'Santa Evita' 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z She called herself an “effective and conservative reformer,” noting that she won statewide four times. Takeaways from Republican Wisconsin gubernatorial debate 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The Progressive Era was a time of wide-ranging causes and varied movements, where activists and reformers from diverse backgrounds and with very different agendas pursued their goals of a better America. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And Islam is defined not in the narrow terms of Sharia's legal code, but in such broad terms that make it potentially compatible with democratic values, which Muslim reformers have long called for. Tunisia referendum: President Kais Saied seeks mandate to extend powers 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z But Gascón had been elected as a progressive reformer and, as part of his plan to overhaul the district attorney’s office, he was opposed to trying juveniles as adults. Convicted killer set free under Prop 57 arrested on gun, drug charges 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The complaint comes as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues to clamp down on opposition, both in the kingdom and abroad, while working to burnish an image as a liberal reformer. Arrest of Saudi for lying to FBI shows kingdom’s reach in US 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z MBS is reminiscent of other autocratic reformers, such as Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the shah of Iran, who used their iron grip to modernize traditional Muslim societies. Opinion | Cut Biden some slack. U.S. presidents have to deal with dictators. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z By the time of the Great Depression, social reformers and humanitarian agencies had determined that the “deserving poor” belonged to a different category from those who had speculated and lost. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In response to this dissatisfaction, some reformers urge the United States to adopt proportional representation for the purpose of creating a multiparty democracy. Perspective | It’s not just us. Western democracies are fragmenting. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z For moral reformers, drug and alcohol use undermined the family and threatened the purity of American women. How the right waged a 100-year war to conquer America — and why it's winning 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Although Prince Mohammed said he had no foreknowledge of the plot, the murder left a deep stain on his efforts to bill himself as a forward-looking reformer. An unspoken result of Biden’s meeting with Prince Mohammed: A setback in the Khashoggi case. 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z What makes MBS such a confounding figure is that, at the same time he is liberalizing Saudi society, he is repressing liberal reformers. Opinion | Cut Biden some slack. U.S. presidents have to deal with dictators. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z At first, temperance reformers, who were predominantly led by Presbyterian ministers, targeted the middle and upper classes. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The killing of Mr. Khashoggi shocked the world and undercut Prince Mohammed’s efforts to present himself as a reformer. Biden’s Fraught Saudi Visit Garners Scathing Criticism and Modest Accords 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z As the de facto ruler of the oil-rich monarchy, the 36-year-old prince has cast himself as a reformer, loosening some restrictions of ultraconservative Islam by permitting women to drive and allowing once-forbidden cinemas and concerts. Biden’s Saudi Lesson: The Only Path Runs Through M.B.S. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Not much has made a dent in the century-old tradition, despite efforts to end the preference that have been waged by progressive students, lawmakers and education reformers. The Quiet Fight to Keep Legacy Admissions 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Monaco, in a recent interview with the AP, said she sought “somebody who’s got executive experience managing a corrections operation, but someone who’s got real experience and credibility, quite frankly, as a reformer.” Justice Dept. taps reforming outsider to run federal prisons 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Other reformers offered plans to increase physical well-being, instituting plans designed to restore vigor. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The murder deterred some investors and dramatically undercut MbS's promotion of himself as a reformer pursuing new freedoms in the conservative kingdom and home of Islam's holiest sites. Saudi Arabia's powerful prince unbowed by Western uproar 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Savannah’s European settlement dates to February 1733, when an English prison reformer led some 114 colonists to a bluff overlooking the Savannah River. Savannah, Ga., keeps the past alive while embracing change 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z His outstanding performance in the office he has held since 2007 — a record that has cemented his reputation as an energetic, thoughtful criminal justice reformer — is ample reason for county voters to support him. Opinion | The Post endorses John McCarthy for Montgomery County State’s Attorney 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The lesson of his brief stint is that criminal justice reform must be done carefully — with attention to people’s safety and quality of life — even as reformers seek to improve how the system treats others. Opinion | The San Francisco district attorney saga set back criminal justice reform 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z A variety of reformers created organizations devoted to temperance, that is, moderation or self-restraint. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z On the day of Mr. Boudin’s loss, prosecutors billed as reformers came out ahead in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, both of which are in the Bay Area and far more populous than San Francisco. The Lessons Liberal Prosecutors Are Drawing From San Francisco’s Backlash 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z They are not elected to be criminal justice reformers. San Francisco voters had heard and seen enough of Chesa Boudin 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Villanueva won the office four years ago as a reformer promising to limit the department’s cooperation in county jails with federal immigration authorities. Did California voters really rebuke the left on election day? Not exactly 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z These considerations make it only more imperative that, when the public entrusts reformers with their safety, they show that a fairer justice system can make their communities more secure and more attractive — not the opposite. Opinion | The San Francisco district attorney saga set back criminal justice reform 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z However, temperance enjoyed a revival in the 1840s, as a new type of reformer took up the cause against alcohol. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z To win, Villanueva presented himself to Democratic voters as a progressive reformer and convinced many of his liberal credentials by promising to limit the department’s cooperation in county jails with federal immigration authorities. Villanueva in tight race for sheriff, early results show 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z George Gascón, a liberal reformer who once was San Francisco D.A. San Francisco voters had heard and seen enough of Chesa Boudin 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Either way, such talk has eroded the faith of some reformers that Harris has the sway, or time, to create lasting change. Kamala Harris’ biggest task is in Latin America, but she’s spent just 3 days there 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z In the later decades of the 19th century, overcrowding in Lower Manhattan and Midtown prompted the development of neighborhoods like Harlem, where real estate developers and reformers helped construct cheap apartment buildings for European immigrants. What Do We Want From Our Next New York? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Sylvester Graham stands out as a leading light among the health reformers in the antebellum years. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He has weathered attacks from across the city’s political spectrum; both the historically conservative police union and more moderate politicians such as Mayor London Breed have often criticized the would-be reformer. San Francisco's bitter D.A. recall could set back national justice reform movement 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z A former labor secretary and a top Justice Department official in the Obama administration, Mr. Perez has emphasized his background as both a prosecutor and police reformer on the campaign trail. Democrats Face Pressure on Crime From a New Front: Their Base 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Some reformers fear there are few places left to push new ones, because it can almost only be done through ballot measures rather than asking legislators to write laws to give up their own power. Democrats, Republicans fight to a redistricting stalemate 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Gonzalez promised his friends and allies a progressive reformer; instead, Villanueva has careened from one controversy to another and revealed himself to be a Nixonian politician obsessed with enemies, real and imagined. Column: From activist to troll. What happened to the L.A. County sheriff's campaign manager? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z A Presbyterian minister, Graham began his career as a reformer, lecturing against the evils of strong drink. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But another way of interpreting the situation is that criminal justice reformers overestimated how much support they had,” she said. L.A. Democrats failed to mount united campaign against Sheriff Villanueva despite anger 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Nadler was a precocious young lawyer who started a group of self-styled reformers, the West Side Kids, and won a State Assembly seat in 1976. Maloney vs. Nadler? New York Must Pick a Side (East or West) 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Today’s internet reformers would leave this system intact. Opinion | The Internet Is Broken. How Do We Fix It? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z First to break from the group were the liberal reformers, many of whom believed they could better achieve their goals working through corporate America and the Democratic Party. 50 years ago, D.C.'s first African Liberation Day launched a movement 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z As a part of their plan to Americanize the tribes, reformers sought legislation to replace this concept with the popular Euro-American notion of real estate ownership and self-reliance. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “I thought he was George Gascón. I thought he was a reformer. I thought he was the real thing,” she said, referring to L.A. L.A. Democrats failed to mount united campaign against Sheriff Villanueva despite anger 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The city, meanwhile, had one of its deadliest years in the past two decades and helped elect a controversial reformer to serve as the county’s top prosecutor. From more cops to defund: Candidates for L.A. mayor differ on crime and policing 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Eugenics came to prominence in the United States in the early 20th century, promoted by social reformers as a way of controlling “undesirable” elements. Review: Why a novel about a home for 'feeble-minded women' resonates with our antiabortion moment 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Villanueva was elected on a swell of support from Democratic voters who believed him to be a progressive reformer. Meet the 9 candidates vying to become Los Angeles County's next sheriff 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z His thoughts influenced many economic progressive reformers, as well as led directly to the creation of the now-popular board game, Monopoly. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z |
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