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A Thousand Points of Fight

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in Blog//Los Angeles Review of Books on Jon Stewart and the limits of mockery.
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Politics/Letters

Fortuna in Finland

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in Politics/Letters about President Donald Trump's machiavellian antics.
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The Indian Express

Is China Meritocratic?

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, writes in The IndianExpress about China.
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Global Policy Journal

The Market is Valuing Climate Risk All Wrong

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes in global policy about the "climate-value paradox."
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The Washington Post

Republicans are still trying to repeal Obamacare

Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, writes in The Washington Post Monkey Cage about why Republicans are unlikely to repeal Obamacare.
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Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs

Nina Tannenwald: The Decline of the Nuclear Order

This article analyzes the erosion of the current nuclear normative order, focusing on existing, declining, and emerging norms, especially among the nuclear powers. Under pressure from changing military technology and increasing geopolitical tensions, the global nuclear normative order is beginning to unravel.
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Our Earnest Struggle

Hemispheric Frederick Douglass

Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, is interviewed for the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass by Our Earnest Struggle.
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SouthCoast Matters 121

Discussing the Importance of the Filibuster

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, was interviewed by SouthCoast Matters 121 on the importance of the filibuster.
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Providence Journal

Courts get more conservative, less diverse

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practive of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, writes in the Providence Journal about vacancies and appointments within the courts.
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The Public's Radio

Rob Blair: The State of American Democracy

After the 2016 presidential election, Rob Blair, an assistant professor of political science at Brown University, began teaching a new course. It's designed to answer one question: is our democracy failing? And it’s proven to be popular enough to go nationwide. Blair claims that this is not an anti-Trump course.
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The Watson Institute

Broken: Can the Senate save Itself and the Country?

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, and Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practive of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs. participate in a discussion of the U.S. Senate.
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The Brown Daily Herald

Joukowsky Forum Addresses U.S. Senate Partisanship

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, and Rich Arenberg, Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, participated in a forum featuring Ira Shapiro to discuss the U.S. Senate.
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The Indian Express

Liberals and nationalism

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, writes in The Indian Express.
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The White House Chronicle

The future of the Republican Party

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, was interviewed on the White House Chronicle 10012 to discuss the future of the Republican Party.
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The Brown Daily Herald

Problematic aspects of NGO intervention

Erin Beck Ph.D. '12, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, spoke on campus on whether NGO's are being effective in bringing about constructive change.
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Where would Frederick Douglass stand on today's struggle for immigrant rights? How would the former fugitive from slavery relate to the people without papers who make our restaurants, dairies, and country run today? This episode takes a close look at the "Hemispheric Douglass" and his thinking on Latin America and migration.
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Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, is interviewed on his research on evidence-based health care.
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C-SPAN

Politics and Race Relations

Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, is interviewed by C-SPAN. She participates in a panel discussing the impact of public policy on race relations.
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Doctoral students Cadence Willse and Prabhdeep Kehal are the Swearer Center’s first Graduate Fellows in Community Engaged Scholarship. This initiative aims to advance the fields of community engagement and social innovation through collaboration with students, faculty, community partners, institutions of higher education, and networks for community engagement and social innovation.
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The Indian Express

Denying Nehru His Due

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, writes in The Indian Express about democracy, India's culture, and Jawahar Lal Nehru's possible role in institutionalizing democracy.
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Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs

Margaret Weir on panel: Poverty in the Suburbs

Places in Need by former Brown University professor Scott W. Allard explores both the changing geography of poverty in metropolitan America and its consequences for safety net policy moving forward.
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Washington Monthly

How the Senate Went Off the Rails

Wendy Schiller, Professor and Chair of Political Science, Professor of Public Policy, wrote in the Washington Monthly on how Trump's presidency makes the urgency of repairing the upper Senate all the more apparent.
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Foreign Affairs

A New Financial Geopolitics?

Mark Blyth, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, is published in Foreign Affairs anthology titled "A New Financial Geopolitics? The U.S.-Led Monetary Order in a Time of Turbulence."
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The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Theorizing Race in the Americas by Juliet Hooker

The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics posted a book review of Professor of Political Science Juliet Hooker's most recent publication, "Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconselos."
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U.S. News and World Report

Bringing Back Earmarks

Eric Patashnik speaks about bringing back earmarks in U.S. News and World Report.
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Brown University Graduate School

Jerome Marston wins Fulbright-Hays Award

Congratulations to Political Science PhD candidate, Jerome Marston, who was awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award. Marston will be using his Fulbright to travel to Bogota and Medellin, Colombia.
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