Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.
considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.
blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric for the rapid rise of the authoritarian populist José Antonio Kast.
发自纽黑文——最近这段时间出人意料的通胀坏消息真是一个接着一个。在美国,所谓的核心消费价格指数(core CPI)——不包括食品和能源——在一片上行预期中调头向下。截至五月份的三个月中,核心消费物价指数基本保持不变,维持在较去年同期高出1.7个百分点的水平。对于各界广泛认为已经近乎实现充分就业神迹的美国经济来说,这简直是当头一盆冷水——而最尴尬的莫过于已尽一切努力要使通胀水平回归2%目标值的美联储了。
而在世界的另一侧,类似的故事也在日本继续上演。但是对于极易出现通缩的日本经济来说,故事的内容更让人揪心。
截至今年4月份,日本的核心消费物价指数较去年同期基本持平,而东京都市圈的经济表现显示5月也将如此。对于为遏制持续19年(1994~2013)累计达19.5%的通缩趋势而动用了史无前例的非常规政策武器库的日本银行来说,这不仅仅是一个盆冷水,简直就是一场近乎失败的窘境。
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