Roosevelt House Faculty Forum Op-Eds, Discussions, Writing, and Recent Research, Contributed by Roosevelt House Faculty Associates and Colleagues
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It used to be that Christopher Columbus was the major iconic representative of the Italian-American community in popular culture, but he has since given way to the likes of Tony…
The recent Ebola outbreak has given the global medical community pause as it figures out how such a deadly disease can spread so rapidly across a few countries in West…
Climate change and its impact has been headline news for several weeks now. On September 21st, anywhere between 311,000 to 400,000 people made their way through Manhattan to beats of…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Census Bureau released the country’s poverty and inequality numbers for 2013. Although the poverty rate showed a decline from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5…
Image: African-American students on whose behalf the Brown v. Board of Education case was taken to the Supreme Court (credit: Life) In a landmark decision 60 years ago, the U.S. Supreme…
Image: Extreme flooding in Florida (Credit: Air Force Master Sgt. Thomas Kielbasa) The grave impact of human-induced climate change is closer to home than most Americans believe. In a comprehensive new…
Photo: A 2013 factory collapse in Savar, Bangladesh (credit: Munir Uz Zaman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) A year after one of the worst industrial disasters in the country’s history claimed the lives…
Above: Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, who called the majority opinion on affirmative action “a sentiment out of touch with reality.” Image Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Affirmative action was once again in…
President Obama with Lilly Ledbetter. (Image credit: www.lillyledbetter.com) In recognition of National Equal Pay Day on April 8, 2014 — a symbolic day to mark how far into the year an…
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts, part of the majority opinion in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission…
Photo by flickr user jungmoon In a special report on the state of entrepreneurship in the U.S., The Economist referred to America as a “beacon of entrepreneurialism.” Pointing to Americans’…
Photo:Nobel Peace Prize activist Leymah Gbowee Image credit: Reuters In the often fraught and uncertain environment that defines the process of post-conflict mediation and peacebuilding, women’s voices are conspicuously absent at…
The 58th session of the Committee on the Status of Women is underway at the United Nations in New York this week. This important annual gathering of representatives of UN…
Medical researchers recently released some hopeful news in the nation’s battle against obesity. According to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity rates among children…