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Trending Globally podcast: From Black Lives Matter to January 6, how ‘Black grief’ and ‘white grievance’ shape our politics — Political scientist Juliet Hooker explains how these movements are linked, and can only be understood together.
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Oxford University Press is excited to announce that By the People, 6th Edition is a recipient of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Textbook Excellence Award! The Textbook Excellence Award recognizes excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. This trusted text engages American Government students in the rich and important debates of our time to ensure they become thoughtful and informed citizens.
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Several OPEC+ countries will reduce oil production by a combined 2.2 million barrels per day through June. Jeff Colgan, director of the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown, discusses how the decreased output could affect the U.S.
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Journal of Democracy

Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow

While the histories of white supremacy and Hindu supremacy are different, their political objectives are much the same. The BJP is forging a regime of exclusion and oppression as brutal as the Jim Crow South. Only India’s voters can reverse its advance.
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The federal government’s budget deficit has soared to $2 trillion— effectively double what it was a year ago. And rising interest rates have increased the cost of financing the nation’s ever-accumulating debt, which now stands at about $33.7 trillion.

But there is also concern on the left, where some worry that growing interest payments could squeeze out more productive spending and pose long-term risks to the economy.

“Serious deficit reduction, a bad idea a decade ago, is a good idea now,” wrote Krugman,the liberal economist and New York Times columnist, in a recent newsletter.

So, what does the man who wrote the book on the subject think? Has Blyth shifted his position? In a word, no.
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Harvard Magazine

A “Scholar’s Scholar”

“We were glad to admit her,” recalled Katherine Tate, assistant and then associate professor of government at Harvard from 1989 to 1993, a member of the department’s admissions committee. Among many talented applicants, “She soared,” Tate said recently, and “turned out to be a very talented student.”
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