Immigration Priorities
September 17, 2019
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
The government has the tools to treat those seeking admission, refuge, or opportunity in the United States humanely, but it needs the will to use them.
Category: Current Events
Gun Control 2.0
August 21, 2019
—James B. Jacobs
Passing more gun control laws won’t make much, if any, difference if the laws can’t be implemented or enforced.
The limits of the language of terror
August 19, 2019
—Piotr Szpunar
The tragedies in El Paso and Gilroy have spurred demands that US government and security institutions (as well as American political culture more generally) change course and apply the label of terrorist to white supremacists.
For Shame: Assigning Fault for Privacy and Security Breaches
August 13, 2019
—Nora A. Draper
While it makes sense to encourage individuals to take steps to minimize security vulnerabilities, it makes less sense to treat privacy and security breaches as the result of individual failures to lock down their digital information.
Can a Nation Curb Presidential Hate Speech?
August 12, 2019
—Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Delgado and Stefancic explore the rise of hate speech under President Trump’s administration
The Links between Slavery, Policing, and Racism
July 30, 2019
—Jennifer E. Cobbina There is a long and mainly unresolved history of government using violence to establish and maintain relations of racial domination and subordination. However, as a nation, we… READ MORE
Celebrating 400 years of Jamestown, the Virginia Assembly, and representative American government
July 29, 2019
— Karen Ordahl Kupperman On July 30th, we celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of the Virginia Assembly, the beginning of representative government in America. The Virginia… READ MORE
‘Unskilled’ immigrants help to ease the pain of dying American
July 3, 2019
—Cati Coe
Discover the rise of unskilled immigrant care workers helping Americans die peacefully in their homes instead of in nursing homes.