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Lisa L. Miller on Discovery Society: Race, Violence and The Failure of the American State

It has become fashionable among American liberals to condemn the American state for its great penal experiment that has left nearly two million Americans in prisons and jails and exposed Black Americans, in particular, to both imprisonment and high levels of aggressive, and sometimes lethal, police violence.  The Clinton crime bill of 1994 is just the most recent public policy to be pilloried by left-wing pundits and activists for contributing to, what has come to be called, “American exceptionalism” in imprisonment, and the deep racial disparities therein.

Andrew Murphy on Bloomberg, discussing the contributions of William Penn

Richard Lau discusses President Obama's 2016 graduation speech at Rutgers on the Brian Lehrer show

President Obama delivered both the Howard and Rutgers University commencement speeches.

Jelani Cobb, associate professor of history and the director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut and staff writer for The New Yorker, and Richard Lau, professor of political science at Rutgers, discuss President Obama's speeches.

Susan Carroll in Signs: Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics

For this edition of Ask a Feminist, we turn to Susan J. Carroll—eminent political scientist and long-time advocate of women’s political participation—to address issues around gender and electoral politics.  Her expertise and experience is needed now more than ever, as we navigate an increasingly fraught political season and the prospect of our first woman president.

Eric Davis on NPR's Los Angeles affiliate KPPC: Iraqi youth movement launching counter-terrorism efforts

Eric Davis, a Rutgers scholar focusing on democracy in Iraq, was on the ground in Iraq this month and says, "When we met with the students, we had some apprehensions about how to talk to these students about activism, but it was fantastic, just fantastic. The men and the women were eager." As Davis writes on his blog "The New Middle East:" 

  1. R. Daniel Kelemen with Megan Greene in Foreign Affairs: Europe's Lousy Deal With Turkey: Why the Refugee Arrangement Won't Work
  2. Mary Nugent and Mona Lena Krook in Democratic Audit, UK: Gender quotas do not pose a threat to “merit” at any stage of the political process
  3. Tatsiana Kulakevich for The Monocle Daily on suspension of sanctions against Belarus
  4. Geoffrey Wallace in Rutgers Today on his book "Life and Death in Captivity: The Abuse of Prisoners during War"

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