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  • 28 Aug 2018
    William H. Wiist

    The Military Budget Grows Bigger and Bigger

    Lead editor and an author of 'Preventing War and Promoting Peace', William H. Wiist, outlines his argument on why health professionals (including psychologists) need to make research and policy advocacy for federal budgets that empahsize domestic programs a priority in their work.

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  • 21 Aug 2018
    Robert W. Heimburger

    What our outrage over child separation tells us

    Hundreds of children still haven’t been reunited with their parents after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Many of us are outraged. This sense of outrage tells us that something is wrong. And what is wrong is not just the Trump administration’s 2018 policy. It’s a problem with how federal U.S. authority over immigration was […]

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  • 1 Mar 2018
    Nicole Doerr

    Can democracy work in multiethnic, multilingual social movements?

    Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, discusses her new book: Political Translation.

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  • 20 Feb 2018
    David McCrone, Frank Bechhofer

    If You’re English, Vote for Brexit

    That England (and Wales) voted Leave in the Brexit referendum of 2016, and that Scotland (and Northern Ireland) voted Remain is now a fact of political life. People resident in these different parts of the UK voted differently for Brexit. But what is going on beneath the surface is more complex. Recent research (reported in […]

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  • 7 Dec 2017
    Nick Forster

    Can Women Transform the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa?

    Amid widespread and often heated contemporary debates about an existential ‘clash’ between the ‘Islamic World’ and the ‘Christian West’, there is growing evidence that Arabic-Muslim women are already playing much more influential roles in their societies and national economies. My recent book, A Quiet Revolution: the Rise of Women managers, Business Owners and Leaders in […]

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  • 5 Nov 2017
    Sébastien Jodoin

    Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate

    Since 2007, global efforts to fight climate change have included measures intended to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, and support the sustainable conservation of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. An international mechanism known as REDD+ seeks to channel climate finance from North to South in order to shift incentives away from activities […]

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  • 21 Jun 2017
    Bert A. Spector

    “Bad Muslims” and Other Manifestations of a Simple Mindset

    In the hours and days following the June 3 rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market – a number of political leaders issued calls for travel bans and internment camps for Muslims. Predictable, maybe, but nonetheless disturbing. Any number of commentators, not to mention federal judges, have suggested the serious shortcomings of such “solutions.”  My […]

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  • 25 May 2017
    Sandy Hershcovis

    Social Death at Work

    Originally posted on Sandyhershcovis.org Lately I’ve become interested in workplace ostracism as a form of workplace aggression. Most research lumps ostracism with other forms of mistreatment (incivility, bullying, etc.), but a recent chapter by Sandra Robinson and Kira Schabram (in press), has convinced me that it is in fact quite different, and possibly much more painful […]

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