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...Many of these same conditions exist today in the climate change debate. It’s not that people haven’t been talking before this, it’s that now, people seem ready to listen and to try to understand. It’s a crowded field and cutting through the din and disinformation will take considerable effort to make climate change a ballot issue in every local, state, and federal race...
...standing in the back room of the Hillary Clinton for President headquarters in Dubuque, Iowa with some volunteers and a field organizer, Elliot, who had been canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for months. The Iowa caucuses were days away, and I had flown in with Institute of Politics Forum Director Bill White to help out with the final push...
...forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized and those without access to imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such as the postcolonial field of study offered by the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature may be ultimately harmful: The notion that there can be some sort of cultural solidarity among incredibly diverse peoples simply by virtue of the sad, shared historical fact of Western domination threatens to muffle unique histories and re-deposit...
...pressure was particularly strong. Fortunately for her and for the University, Faust proved up to the challenges of her inaugural year. She responded skillfully to the tasks before her, from her appointment of numerous administrators, to the creation of a task force aimed at increasing interdisciplinary cooperation in a field marked by many independent topics...
...1980s, he continued his work in this field by championing core issues like foster care and family leave at the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families...