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Why Movements Matter in Black Politics

And why scholars of American politics should pay closer attention

March 29, 2022 • by Megan Ming Francis

But when we expand the analytical lens in scholarship on the American party system, what other areas of research have been silenced or overlooked?...

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The Growing Power of American Social Movements

And why elites still matter

March 29, 2022 • by William Galston

Social movements often fail, the scope of their concerns is limited, and their impact on parties is cyclical, rather than ever-expanding. ...

The Growing Power of American Social Movements

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Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

Taking a long view of a contentious history

March 28, 2022 • by Sidney Tarrow

Where can the American left go from here? How should the Democratic party respond to the continuing electoral potency of the illiberal currents that now dominate the Republican party? And how should movement activists respond?...

Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

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Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Republicans want to return power to the states, where those who are allowed to vote can impose discriminatory laws on minorities

March 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Right on cue, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana today told a reporter that states not only should decide the issue of abortion but should also be able to decide the issues of whether interracial marriage should be legal and whether couples should have access to contraception. He told a ...

Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Europe & Central Asia

Europe 1948/2022

Uncontrolled migration is one of Russia’s weapons in its war with the West

March 23, 2022 • by Simon Garnett

Unlike in 2015, European citizens are unanimous in their solidarity with the refugees. Public opinion counts. In Poland especially, neighborliness is everywhere to be seen, despite all the historical baggage between the two countries. This time, there is a good chance that member state governments will rise to the challenge....

Europe & Central Asia

What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Ways to improve the global protection regime

March 23, 2022 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

The international refugee regime lacks a global responsibility-sharing system; so the vast majority of the world’s refugees stay—for years and years—in the states to which they first flee. ...

What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Europe & Central Asia

Helping Ukraine We Help Ourselves

An appeal of Nobel Prize winners, former presidents and prime ministers, scientists and journalists to adopt a plan to help Ukraine fighting against Russia’s aggression

March 22, 2022 • by Adam Michnik

For three weeks, Ukraine has been courageously repelling the military aggression of a treacherous and more powerful enemy. Ukraine’s strength has two sources. The first is the bravery of her soldiers and volunteers, who are defending their families, their homes, their native land. The second is the solidarity and assistance ...

Europe & Central Asia

Putin’s New Iron Curtain

Freedom and democracy are both impossible if we do not take responsibility for the other

March 22, 2022 • by Lucas Fain

Let us recognize that freedom and democracy are both impossible if we do not take responsibility for the other. This is the call of ethics. It is required to imagine another future, to free the world from arrogant barbarism, to break out of the world in which we now find ...

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Did Putin Dupe Xi?

Plus: “Catastrophic hunger,” Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court, the Putinization of US Evangelicals, and an 11-point plan that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck

March 21, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

This week, President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, speaking personally for the first time since last November. In early February, before the invasion, Xi and Russian president Vladimir Putin met and issued a 5000-word statement pledging limitless “friendship.” But it ...

Europe & Central Asia

Russia’s Creative Class Heads for the Exits

“I left, because life in Russia is turning into survival”

March 16, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert

Ukrainians are not the only ones fleeing their homeland because of the war. Thousands of Russians are also trying to flee – though it becomes harder every day for them to do so because of internal crackdowns and foreign flight restrictions. Since invading Ukraine, Russia has been almost entirely isolated from ...

Russia’s Creative Class Heads for the Exits

Europe & Central Asia

The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina discuss the conflict and its consequences

March 16, 2022 • by Nina Khrushcheva, Jessica Pisano, Everita Silina and Peter Hoffman

This conversation between Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina was organized by The New School’s Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, with an eye towards bringing light to different angles and perspectives on this conflict. It occurred on March 1, 2022, and has been ...

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Race and Redistricting

Gerrymandering is old, but the prohibition of racial gerrymandering is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’s success

March 15, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Eventually, all legislatures conformed to the Supreme Court’s mandate that the only basis for representation was population. States where one party dominated the legislature gerrymandered to consolidate its position. In states with large minority populations which largely voted for one major party and whites the other, party gerrymandering became racial ...

Politics

Why Movements Matter in Black Politics

And why scholars of American politics should pay closer attention

Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

Taking a long view of a contentious history

Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Republicans want to return power to the states, where those who are allowed to vote can impose discriminatory laws on minorities

Europe 1948/2022

Uncontrolled migration is one of Russia’s weapons in its war with the West

What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Ways to improve the global protection regime

Helping Ukraine We Help Ourselves

An appeal of Nobel Prize winners, former presidents and prime ministers, scientists and journalists to adopt a plan to help Ukraine fighting against Russia’s aggression

Putin’s New Iron Curtain

Freedom and democracy are both impossible if we do not take responsibility for the other

Did Putin Dupe Xi?

Plus: “Catastrophic hunger,” Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court, the Putinization of US Evangelicals, and an 11-point plan that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck

Russia’s Creative Class Heads for the Exits

“I left, because life in Russia is turning into survival”

The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina discuss the conflict and its consequences

Race and Redistricting

Gerrymandering is old, but the prohibition of racial gerrymandering is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’s success

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