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With the reopened FBI inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails when she was secretary of state, Americans are once again considering what counts as negligence in how officials — and in particular, Clinton — handle potentially sensitive information.
Imagine a president who challenges the most important newspaper in the country every single day, depicts it as the state’s main political rival, and even calls it "dictatorial" and "Nazi". Think of a president who in order to contest critical media accounts uses state money to promote a new,"friendly" media in various guises (television, press and internet). Consider a president who changes the law with the explicit aim of targeting media critics, and especially newspapers.
"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign — blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind."
Apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band and its 1971 hit song, but campaign Sard signs are sprouting like weeds in this particularly polarizing election cycle. With them have come vandals carving Trump signs into "Rump" signs, and vigilantes defying local ordinances to festoon their properties with dozens of partisan placards.
A record 27 million Latinos are eligible to vote this fall, according to the Pew Research Center, and the latest polls suggest they'll be voting for Hillary Clinton (or against Donald Trump) by a 40-point margin.
A new social science collaboration on science, technology and society with École Polytechnique, co-organized by historian Pamela Smith, held its first panel on "Science, Technology and the Logics of Preventive War," which featured panelists including political scientist Robert Jervis and others. Click here to read full article.
Electricity is an important component of socio-economic development, but most studies of household electricity access focus exclusively on the presence or absence of a connection. Here we reach beyond connectivity by examining the relationship between various dimensions of the quality of electricity supply and a household’s subjective satisfaction with their electricity or lighting situation.
Padma Desai, Columbia University professor, explains what she calls the "double economic jeopardy" facing Russia. She speaks with Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn and David Gura on "Bloomberg Markets." Click here for video.
Fredrick C. Harris wrote an essay about racial inequality in UNESCO's World Social Science Report. He also explored minority voting rights in the 2016 election in a podcast for Brookings.
PODCAST
Minority voting in the 2016 election
Adrianna Pita, Fredrick C. Harris, and Fred DewsFriday, October 7, 2016