Far-right Reps. Boebert, Gosar and Greene are on committees probing Biden. What does that mean?
"The investigatory will of Congress is going to be in overdrive for the next couple of years in the House," said John Farmer, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. - USA Today Why Lincoln’s Lyceum Address is worth revisiting
NJ Spotlight News published an op-ed written by Eagleton Professor Saladin Ambar. "This week is the 185th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s first major political speech, his Jan. 27, 1838 address at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. The speech was 'On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,' a subject he’d return to again and again throughout his political career." Ardern Is Latest High Achieving Woman to Say She’s Quitting Due to Burnout
"Kelly Dittmar, the director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University called her resignation a 'disruption' of expectations. 'It should make us think about not only the difficulty for political leaders and retention, but also the humanity that she emphasized,' Dittmar said. 'Leaving power in itself is sometimes a form of effective leadership.'” - Bloomberg Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom’s Contest Is Culture War Idiocy
"I reached out to Kristoffer Shields, a historian and program manager at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University, to ask if my impression of novelty was correct. 'It’s definitely not unprecedented for governors of different states to have disagreements or even fights across state lines,” Shields told me in a conversation by email, though generally those battles are tied to a more specific situation, like an “environmental or development issue (border disputes, basically).'” - The Daily Beast The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom
Al Jazeera published an op-ed written by Sahar Aziz. "Over the past few weeks, there has been much debate about academic freedom in the United States. It was sparked by the decision of Hamline University not to renew the contract of an adjunct professor who showed a famous 14th-century Persian painting of the Prophet Muhammad and Angel Gabriel in her art history class. The decision was made following the complaint of a Muslim student who felt offended." |
