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Watch what's happening in red states

June 3, 2021
Don Kettl spoke to The Atlantic about what’s transforming the Republican Party post-Trump.

Watch what's happening in red states

June 3, 2021
Don Kettl spoke to The Atlantic about what’s transforming the Republican Party post-Trump.  

Decision 2020: Financial relief and election impact

Aug. 10, 2020
LBJ's Jeremi Suri talks about President Trump's latest executive orders, the economy and the 2020 election.

What it takes to build a nonpartisan pipeline for women candidates

Aug. 7, 2020
"In a space dominated by Democratic groups, the LBJ Women's Campaign School highlights its nonpartisan approach in trying to help more women get elected to office. It's not that simple." LBJ Women's Campaign School Executive Director Amy Kroll (MPAff '20) talks with The 19th about the program's mission.

James Galbraith: 'The United States economy was a house of cards that collapsed with the pandemic'

July 9, 2020
"'We will not see a rapid economic recovery because the problems of the American economy are structural,' said LBJ's James Galbraith, author of books like Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe, to BBC Mundo.

The revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. revisited in 'The Sword and The Shield'

July 6, 2020
"Dr. Peniel E. Joseph’s The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. could not have been published at a more apropos time," writes Jamal Eric Watson in his review.

Webinar: Building the Beloved Community: Allyship During Racial Crisis

June 25, 2020
LBJ's Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) and Barbara Jordan Chair of Ethics and Political Values, and panelists Lawton Cummings and Kelli Mason, partners at Notley, an Austin-based nonprofit social impact firm, discuss meaningful paths to allyship and fostering an inclusive and equitable society for all in a June 25, 2020 webinar.

Black Studies scholar Peniel Joseph on the significance of the BLM protests

July 2, 2020
LBJ's Peniel Joseph talks with Texas Monthly about what he sees — echoes of the past and hope for the future — in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations rocking the nation.

Elizabeth Warren's softening on Medicare signals she's serious about being Biden's VP

May 27, 2020
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's continued evolution in how she talks about health care serve as the latest signal to former Vice President Joe Biden that she's serious about being seen as a...
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