Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
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Some countries in Africa have made great strides bolstering the middle class by supporting small businesses, but more needs to be done.
April 15 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. But how did we come to commemorate the genocide of European Jewry in this way when survivors could barely speak of the horrors they endured?
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a blow against US influence in global financial markets.
The announcement that an agreement has been reached by the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany) and Iran has been met with equal degrees of enthusiasm, surprise and incredulity…
Imagine that the elected leader of a foreign country did this to a democratically elected ally: Implied that its president was a racist Implied its government’s policies were effectively racist Demanded…
George W Bush had a very successful foreign policy. Those are words you don’t often read unedited in that order. But, yes, I wrote them. No, I am not joining the ranks of the neo-conservatives who popped…
This week’s open declaration of hostility by 47 Republican senators to any US agreement with Iran has generated much handwringing about the state of American domestic politics. The tone and manner of their…
Last week the race for the Republic presidential nomination was kicked off in earnest by the Conservative Political Action’s annual Conference. Yes, they all, predictably, want to “save our country” from…
China supplanted the US as Africa’s biggest partner in 2009, but the Americans are hoping to catch up.
President Obama’s publication of his 2015 National Security Strategy on February 6th is the kind of event that generates great heat and discussion among a relatively small group of policymakers, pundits…
Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and this winter Mother Nature has served up a feast to chew on. Few parts of the US have been spared her wrath. Severe drought and abnormally warm conditions continue…
In his recent budget announcement, President Obama staked out a negotiating position with Congressional Republicans by offering a sense of symmetry: a 7% increase in the military budget to balance out…
We have now had time to digest the tragic events in Paris. The press has made its predictable set of news cycles in the last two weeks. They have covered the actual events themselves. Then, in America…
I grew up in London during the IRA bombing campaign of the 1970s. I lived in Pittsburgh during the 9/11 attacks when United Flight 93 was forced down not far from the city. I’m currently in Paris where…
The New Year always provides an opportunity for both introspection and speculation. So it seems a good time to consider what the big stories are likely to be this year. Some of the five major stories I…
This week we have witnessed a plunge in the price of oil and the astonishing demise of the ruble. These events provide the basis for a great series of conspiracy theories, the type that readily find an…
At the end of a long and challenging week, the famous aphorism, “we have met the enemy and he is us” readily comes to mind. The issuance of the long awaited Senate “torture report” has set off a debate…
A noxious combination of falling wages, income inequality at its highest since the 1920s and a growing low-wage sector has caused the ranks of the working poor to swell to more than 47 million. That’s…
Ash Carter’s appointment as Secretary of Defense signals a significant departure by President Obama. Despite his three predecessors in the post having been people who had held a variety of distinguished…
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
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Professeur émérite, sociologue, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
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Dean's Research Professor, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor, Rutgers University, DEA Fellow, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH), Rutgers University
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Senior Program Director and Lecturer, Rutgers University
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Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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Professor and Head of Dermatology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
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PhD Candidate in Higher Education, Rutgers University
