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Archive: 2020 (24 Posts)

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Applications Now Open for New Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Applications are now open for the Library of Congress Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking. Negotiation is vital to public policymaking in the U.S. Congress. In fact, legislative productivity is dependent on effective legislative negotiations, given the complexities of our system of separated branches with a bicameral legislature. In an effort to support scholarship in this area, …

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Ivan Krastev Wins Two Prestigious Prizes

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The John W. Kluge Center congratulates recent Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations Ivan Krastev on winning the prestigious 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize for his book The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy, co-authored with Stephen Holmes. The Gelber Prize is awarded for the year’s best …

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Writing African Americans into the Story

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The following post was written by Wendi Maloney and originally appeared on the Library of Congress Blog. Jesse Holland wears a lot of different hats: he’s an award-winning political journalist, he’s a television host, he’s a professor and he’s a comics aficionado — he wrote the first novel about the Black Panther for Marvel in …

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A Thankless Task: Whistleblowing in Medical Research on Human Subjects

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Carl Elliott is Professor in the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Pediatrics, and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota, as well as most recent Kluge Center Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History. Elliott …