How public colleges have already backed away from affirmative action Domingo Morel - October 30, 2022 Monday’s Supreme Court oral arguments will probably focus on elite schools. But most low-income students of color come up against a different barrier.
Afro-Latino politicians could bridge the African American-Latino divide Yalidy Matos, Michelle Bueno Vásquez, and Domingo Morel - October 24, 2022 In the U.S., Dominicans are the Hispanic group with the largest Black population. Many are pressured to identify as either Black or Latino, not both.
As Georgia’s new law shows, when Black people gain local power, states strip that power away. Domingo Morel - March 31, 2021 Think of Michigan officials taking over Flint’s water supply
Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ slur makes some people blame Chinese Americans. But others blame Trump. Gregory Porumbescu and Donald Moynihan - September 16, 2020 Even conservatives responded to the phrase by more often criticizing the president
We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities Vesla Weaver and Gwen Prowse - June 16, 2020 Here’s what we learned.
Iraqis have been holding peaceful mass protests. The U.S. strike and its aftermath are undermining that. Zahra Ali - January 7, 2020 Here’s what Iraqi protesters want.
How Saudi Arabia uses women’s rights reforms against women’s rights and reform Nermin Allam - March 29, 2019 The crown prince’s approach to women’s rights still excludes feminists.
We gathered data on every confirmed, line-of-duty police killing of a civilian in 2014 and 2015. Here’s what we found. Logan Strother, Geiguen Shin, and Charles Menifield - August 29, 2018 [caption id="attachment_77172" align="aligncenter" width="960"] In June, demonstrators protest the fatal
This book helps us understand women’s participation in the Egyptian uprising Kim Yi Dionne - June 8, 2018 Welcome to the first week of the 2018 African Politics
Beach Reads: Jeffrey Gettleman’s ‘Love, Africa’ Laura Seay - August 25, 2017 [caption id="attachment_62835" align="alignnone" width="768"] Beach reading (Laura Seay)[/caption] It's hot,
On Prohibition’s 100th anniversary, here’s a distillation of 3 myths about the temperance movement. Mark Schrad - August 1, 2017 [caption id="attachment_61639" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Women turn out in large numbers,
This is what Trump and Sanders get wrong about free trade Guian McKee - May 17, 2016 [caption id="attachment_40569" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Protesters in Tokyo rally against the
What the Bolsheviks and Nazis can teach us about Russia today Alexander Motyl - March 14, 2015 [caption id="attachment_22678" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The territories that were at one
Five fatal flaws in realist analysis of Russia and Ukraine Alexander Motyl - March 3, 2015 [caption id="attachment_22253" align="alignnone" width="620"] Is Russian President Vladimir Putin rational
Let the millennials grow up (the apathetic youth, and other myths) Kaat Smets and Anja Neundorf - May 19, 2014 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] A voting sign hangs on
The Sorry State of Election Administration in the United States John Sides - February 11, 2012 There are many, many tales that can be told about
Randomizing Custom(s) Joshua Tucker - March 12, 2011 I was planning on blogging about another paper from the