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Testimony and Public Comment
Liz Kennedy
Stuart Naifeh
More than $11 million in McCutcheon Money has already flowed into this year's mid-term congressional elections.
Blog
Adam Lioz
When you find a leak, do you jump up and point at it? Yell about it? What if the leak is part of a massive flood? Do you call up your friends and make plans to build a dam? What if the leak comes at you when you’ve been trapped in a basement with floodwater rising up to your neck? Early Wednesday
Blog
Jodeen Olguín-Tayler
The response to Michael Brown's death is coalescing around a call for an end to the military-police complex, and President Obama has ordered a review of police militarization. But why does this complex exist in the first place?
Blog
Lenore Palladino
Michael was a human being. This is a simple truth, Michael’s humanity. Yet it is also implicitly a fragile insight, one that the police indifference to the dignity of his corpse and to the sentiments of his gathering neighbors suggests that many officers failed to grasp.
Blog
Ian Haney López
For a moment, Monday’s funeral for Michael Brown, the young black man shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, pulled our attention away from the protests and militarized police response and back to the body on the street. The police left Michael there in the middle of the
In the media
Ian Haney López
Police brutality and racialized violence have been at the forefront of many conversations in the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown.
Blog
Reniqua Allen

How Higher Education Cuts Undermine the State’s Future Middle Class

Research
Robert Hiltonsmith
Mark Huelsman

A number of states have laws demanding citizens produce documentary evidence of citizenship to register to vote. These laws have far-reaching implications for voter participation in our democracy.

Research
Stuart Naifeh
As the world watches the working class town of Ferguson, Missouri, the Fed is meeting in the secluded Jackson Hole, Wyoming to debate the future of work.
Blog
Joseph Hines