Analyses

How Race Works Today

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Michael O. Emerson
Allyn & Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Rice University

ANALYSIS - November 25, 2011

It’s a riddle, really.  The United States is by many accounts post-racial.  We reassure ourselves that racial groups are no longer kept separate and unequal by our laws, customs, and personal prejudices.  And ever since the last official vestiges of racial discrimination were eschewed from our laws in the 1960s, we have indeed seen amazing changes.

 

Terrorism, Psychology and Psychiatry

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Mohammed Ayoub
Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatrist

September 11ANALYSIS - September 5, 2011
On July 22, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in Oslo that killed eight people. He then went to Utoyah island, where the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour party held its annual summer camp, and shot and killed sixty-nine others, plunging his country into deep shock and grief.

 

The Rise of the Civic and the Return of the Ethical

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Adrian Pabst
University of Kent
United Kingdom

ANALYSIS - January 31, 2012

The year 2011 witnessed a new wave of protest movements and unprecedented popular outrage across the globe.  From the protests in North Africa and the Middle East to the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States to the camps outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Moscow, demonstrators have expressed a deep-seated anger at global finance that is shared by many.