Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Mimi Abramovitz (School of Social Work) was featured on inSocialWork, a podcast series from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, SUNY, in a two-part interview… 
Listen to the broadcast Dr. Manu Bhagavan spoke with WNYC reporter Arun Venugopal on the Brian Lehrer Show this morning about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. Dr. Bhagavan is…
Larry Shore’s (Faculty Associate and Professor of Film and Media at Hunter College) film RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope, will air this month on Link…
The New York City Police Department is a work in progress. It has moved along a winding path of reform for decades. It never seems to get to where it…
How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and achieving…
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government’s attempt to raise pork prices through the…
Sanford Schram, Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, Professor of Political Science and instructor in the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House, has been a visiting fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre at…
Nancy Foner, a distinguished professor of sociology at Hunter, has been appointed to a major influential post by the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Foner is an expert on the…
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today’s health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence…
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City. Contributors show how nearly fifty years of…
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