By: Gregory Segal In December 1991, after over 45 years of bitter rivalry with the United States, the Soviet Union suddenly disappeared from the world map. With the Soviet Union’s abrupt disintegration, Americans quickly believed that the Cold War, and the era it entailed, rapidly ended along with it. As President George H. W. Bush said in a June 1992 [...]
By: Gabriel Delaney Comprehensive immigration reform is a policy accomplishment that has eluded President Obama thus far in his presidency. The whole of Congress has stalled on the issue, leaving behind more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in a state of quasi-American citizenship that neither grants them a right to a free life nor holds them accountable for paying into [...]
By: Brian Liu Despite China’s recent economic success, social and economic problems lie just beyond the horizon. These issues include an unsustainable economic model, a failed One-Child policy, and political corruption. The burden of these problems now falls into the lap of Xi Jinping, China’s newly selected leader of the executive politburo committee. In order to remedy such problems, the [...]
By: Aidan McConnell As Argentina contends with rising inflation, looming economic stagnation, and concerns about a return to authoritarianism, protests—some 700,000 strong—have rocked the streets of Buenos Aires and cities around the world. Comprised of predominantly middle-income Argentinian citizens, the demonstrations primarily stem from reforms and policy directives of the nation’s controversial president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and are fueled [...]
By: Gregory Segal In December 1991, after over 45 years of bitter rivalry with the United States, the Soviet Union...
By: Gabriel Delaney Comprehensive immigration reform is a policy accomplishment that has eluded President Obama thus...
By: Brian Liu Despite China’s recent economic success, social and economic problems lie just beyond the horizon....
By: Aidan McConnell As Argentina contends with rising inflation, looming economic stagnation, and concerns about...
Photograph: AP When Barack Obama ran for President in...
By: Anthony Cruz It is rare to hear Belarus counted...
By Urja Mittal and Sarem Gizaw Benjamin Jealous is the...
Photograph: AP When Barack Obama ran for President in...
Photograph: AP When Barack Obama ran for President in 2008, he repeatedly—and rightfully— denounced the Bush administration as “one of the most secretive administrations in our nation’s history,” and vowed that “as president,” he would “change that.” His campaign pledged to protect whistleblowers, exalting them as “the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government” and declaring [...]
I had dinner with my friends in Georgetown last night. It was a cool summer evening and we decided to eat at a small Italian café that had seating outside on the roof. The food was quite good and we were there long into the night enjoying the weather and the company. At one point, I decided to ask my [...]
By: Gregory Segal At the beginning of his landmark essay in Sports Illustrated, NBA Center Jason Collins writes, “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, [...]
By Urja Mittal and Sarem Gizaw Benjamin Jealous is the current President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the youngest person to have led the 104-year-old organization. Earlier in his career, Jealous worked as a journalist for a Mississippi newspaper and served extensively in the non-profit sector. As [...]
By Urja Mittal & Anthony Cruz Joe Trippi is a Democratic campaign consultant who has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, Howard Dean, and John Edwards. He has also done campaign consulting for state and Congressional campaigns, including for Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, and for politicians in foreign countries, such [...]
By: Samuel Ruddy John Bul Dau is one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan and the founder of non-profit organizations that benefit those who are displaced by the conflict in Sudan. Born into a tribe in the southern region of the war-torn Sudan in 1974, Dau had to flee attacks on his village at the age of 8 and [...]
By: Jonathan Fried Extreme ideological polariz-ation and large structural deficits are a match made in hell. Indeed, it is quite possible that, given the yawning chasm between congressional Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. will stagger from one mild fiscal crisis to the next. Perhaps the real drivers of our structural budget deficit will be successfully addressed, and perhaps not. But [...]
by Vanessa Koh The brutal rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old student in India have sparked outrage and protests against endemic gendered violence. However, there is something unsettling about the way western media has relayed the story of this rape and has handled rape culture. Libby Purves of The Times asserts, “Indian women need a cultural earthquake,” as “murderous, [...]
By: Chad Klitzman A CIA operative orchestrates an elaborate plot to rescue six Iranian hostages in Ben Affleck’s “Argo.” America’s 16th president illustrates the power of compromise as he works to pass the thirteenth amendment in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” And, an elite team of Navy SEALs raids a Pakistani compound housing the world’s most wanted man in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero [...]
By: Benjamin Droz There is a reason why I read political books. It is not because I love the often dry, statistics-filled, obviously self-promoting style of similar texts; it is because these texts often have a therapeutic quality. I follow and participate in politics in this country, because I feel a nagging frustration with all that surrounds us. What drives [...]
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