Word: legacyism
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Punjab's lethal pesticide legacy can be traced to the Green Revolution of the 1960s and '70s, when high-yielding varieties of cotton were introduced in the region's relatively arid Malwa belt. Initially the move was successful as yields and prices were good. But farmers soon discovered that the...
Clinton also started the process of rebuilding her husband's legacy, a man whose missteps on the campaign trail have been controversial. "In the last 40 years, our country has voted 10 times for President. Democrats won only three of those times, and the man who won two of those...
Yet Klobuchar doesn't feel she has to prove she belongs. And thanks to Clinton, neither will the next women who run for President. Clinton has shattered long-standing assumptions about whether a woman could seriously compete for the White House. She not only avoided the label of "novelty candidate...
Kennedy seemed to delight in telling audiences the opposite of what they wanted to hear. Amid the era's taut racial tensions, he spent more time asking white audiences to step into the shoes of aggrieved blacks than he did pandering to their desire for law and order. In Clarke...
Both of these moves sparked debate, and the first was overturned by a federal judge as unconstitutional. But the sentiment behind these moves—to help advance minorities—as well as her attention to other overlooked communities is what Radcliffe cites as the most important parts of...