Jessica Levinson is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School and Director of Political Reform at the Center for Governmental Studies. Before moderating a panel on the effects that redistricting will have on California, she took questions in our Green Room…
by Lynne Thompson
something like this has happened before:
pearls, unharvested,
swim alongside fishes with wishes—
the gauze between us smells like cinnamon …
The NAACP has been at the forefront of the struggle for equal rights since its inception in 1909. But the symbolic significance of electing our first black president, the shifting attitudes toward race, as well as the nation’s new demographic landscape have triggered a reexamination of the movement’s priorities and goals. In advance of former NAACP chairman Julian Bond‘s visit to Zócalo, we asked four experts what role the historic organization should play going forward…
by Andrés Martinez
In the aftermath of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Oslo a day earlier, The Wall Street Journal ran a stirring editorial Saturday (“Terror in Oslo”) explaining that Norwegians had been “made to pay a terrible price” by Islamist jihadists for being “a liberal nation committed to freedom of speech and conscience, equality between the sexes, representative democracy and every other freedom that still defines the West.” “Ich bin Osloite,” if you will…
In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five probing questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Jonnie Hughes, author of On the Origin of Tepees: How Human Culture Evolves…
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