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Vaccines Became a Polarizing Issue Long Before COVID-19 February 23, 2022 A new study looks at when politics began to shape Americans’ opinions about vaccines…
![Prof. Keena Lipstiz: "U.S. Democracy Survived January 6, 2021, But Barely: Here’s Why and What Can Be Done"](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2022/01/Lipstiz3.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
U.S. Democracy Survived January 6, 2021, But Barely: Here’s Why and What Can Be Done By Lida Tunesi One year ago, a mob of insurrectionists…
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Professor George Andreopoulos published “Academic Freedom as a Human Right,” in A Research Agenda for Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020) and “Embracing our Common…
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Peter Beinart is an associate professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the Graduate Center’s political science department, where he teaches the…
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Left: Alice Neel, John Mollenkopf (1970), oil on canvas. Gift Dr. Hartley Neel. Collection of the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Right: John Mollenkopf…
![Fall 2020 Faculty Interview: Paisley Currah](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2021/03/Paisley-Currah.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College. He is the 2019-2021 Endowed…
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COVID Sisyphys by Robin Garrell When Graduate Center Professors Alyson Cole, Robyn Marasco, and Charles Tien, the new team of editors of the political science…
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Fortune Magazine Breaking the glass slipper: Can Marjorie Taylor Greene succeed as ‘Trump in drag’? By Alyson Cole March 4, 2021 5:30 PM EST Forty-six…
![‘Over-Policed and Under-Protected’: Professor Michael Fortner on How to Safeguard Black Communities](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2021/02/Fortner4.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Professor Michael Fortner (Political Science) is the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, a close examination of…
!["She Was Speaking Directly to Us": Professor Celina Su on Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem, "The Hill We Climb"](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2021/01/Su.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Of the many stirring elements of last week’s presidential inauguration ceremony, Amanda Gorman’s reciting of her inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” captured the most…
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