Foxman, who just turned 81, is being honored in Washington, D.C., this month as part of American Jewish History Month, established by Congress and a presidential proclamation in 2006.
Mao was unmoved by the mass suffering caused by The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution because, for him, it was superseded by national glory. Something similar is playing out in India.
President Joe Biden's address to Congress last week wasn't merely a sobering recitation of the nation's most profound wounds and weaknesses, and it wasn't only a summary of the specific proposals he has made in his first 100 days to confront them. It was an old-fashioned call for bipartisanship by one who came of age in a different, better time.
Prerna Singh: "It’s part of the authoritarian playbook. It’s another egregious instance of the BJP regime systematically showing callousness and hubris."
Prerna Singh: India is exporting vaccines to other countries, all of which is amazing and laudable and necessary, but there was no consistent vaccine drive in India.
King's independent, cerebral approach lends him outsized credibility in the Senate, and he rejects the conventional wisdom that bipartisanship in the world's supposedly most deliberative body is dead.
Wendy Schiller: "I think either Cicilline or Langevin would be most likely offered a position in the Biden administration if they were asked to step aside or they did step aside to make room for the other. I think there would be some landing pad for them."
Hot tempers at last week's House hearing on the battle against COVID-19 highlighted again the hatred that America's hard right continues to harbor for Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Wendy Schiller: “When you’re losing those kinds of senators in the Republican Party, you’re faced with primaries that will be extremely contentious and very conservative."
Joe Biden has tasked the vice president with looking into the root causes of the migrant surge, but many on the Left and Right want immediate action on the current crisis.
Richard Arenberg: “It seems unlikely that Republicans in Congress will support the Biden plan as described because of the size of the price tag and the suggestion that corporate taxes be increased."
How does violence during civil war shape citizens' demand for state-provided security, especially in settings where non-state actors compete with the state for citizens' loyalties? This article draws on Hobbesian theory to argue that in post-conflict countries, citizens who were more severely victimized by wartime violence should substitute away from localized authorities and towards centralized ones, especially the state.
Wendy Schiller: “GOP senators who vote to acquit may be protecting themselves against primary challenges from the more extreme wing of their party in 2022, or even 2024."
As familiar a figure as Biden has been for the past half-century, it has been easy to sell him short, to somehow overlook the qualities that equip him so well to steer the country through an existential crisis that is medical, economic and civic all at the same time.
Arenberg called it “remarkable” that the office has managed to maintain its nonpartisan posture while the rest of Congress has become steadily more polarized.
A democracy which speaks with one voice, which elevates citizen duties over citizen rights, which privileges obedience over freedom, which uses fear to instil ideological uniformity, which weakens checks on executive power, is a contradiction in terms.
Eric Patashnik stressed that Democrats’ main concern should be making “good public policy” rather than legislating only with short-term electoral consequences in mind.
James Morone: “Will he get pushback from Progressives? Not much. That's because Biden has stuck to his guns on a $1.9 trillion bailout despite calls for pairing it down from the likes of Larry Summers."
The book African American Political Thought: A Collected History, Edited by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner is published by University of Chicago Press.
Wendy Schiller: "If a corporation were to offer him a speaking appearance, the social media backlash would be swift and severe, with possible boycotts of their products."
Richard Arenberg: "The filibuster is fundamental to the protection of the minority’s right to debate and offer amendments. It fosters negotiation, moderation and compromise."
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic politics that persist in many such countries.