Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Carrington ’18 MA (PSc) and Strother ’17 PhD (PSc) piece on Confederate statues in the WaPo
See related: Civil Rights, Government, United States
Monde-Anumihe featured in Guardian Woman
See related: Human Rights, International Affairs
Shi article on low-income female students and the reversal of the Black-White gap published in AERA
See related: Civil Rights, Education, Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity
Banks discusses FISA reforms with Sinclair Broadcast Group
Professor Emeritus William C. Banks says the changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process in the bill would increase accountability for abuses of the system and require the FBI to disclose more information to the court.
See related: Congress, Law, U.S. National Security, United States
Keck explains role of chief justice in impeachment trial in Al Jazeera
"Impeachment of a U.S. president is an unusual circumstance," says Tom Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "(The chief justice) is there to oversee a trial, which is something that should be well within his comfort zone. But it's a trial conducted by elected partisan officials. It's not a court, the U.S. Senate."
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Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex
Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
See related: Black, Education, Gender and Sex, Housing, Human Rights, United States
Keck weighs in on the future of American democracy in the NY Times
Tom Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says drastic measures might be needed such as term limits for new justices and keeping open the possibility of expanding the [Supreme] court’s size. "It may be our least-bad option in restoring the court’s role as a democratic guardrail."
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Hamza Mighri explores Tunisian military court reform in Brookings blog
See related: Crime & Violence, Government, Law, Middle East & North Africa
Elizabeth Cohen discusses her book Citizenship on New Books Network
"Citizenship" (Polity Books, 2019), co-authored by Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science, takes the reader through the authors' approaches to the concept of citizenship and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood.
See related: Civil Rights, United States