by jpitney | Dec 16, 2019 | Higher Education, Uncategorized
The American Enterprise Institute’s Summer Honors Program is an intensive, fully-funded educational and professional development opportunity in Washington, DC, for top undergraduate students. Participants in the program have the chance to connect with the ideas,...
by jpitney | Dec 15, 2019 | Freedom of Press, Journalism, Russia, Uncategorized
No this is not a joke. After killing dozens of journalists for exposing the crimes of the Putin regime, the Russian government tweets out their recognition of Remembrance Day of journalists killed in the line of duty. https://t.co/C0jUyvu4es — Bill Browder...
by jpitney | Dec 15, 2019 | California Politics, State Government
California’s Capital Fellows Programs are nationally recognized public policy fellowships that offer unique experiences in policy-making in each branch of state government. Capital Fellows are placed at some of the highest levels of California state government...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2019 | Congress, Oversight, Uncategorized
Rep. Charles Wiggins (R-CA) served on the House Judiciary Committee. From his 2000 obituary: Judge Charles E. Wiggins, a Republican congressman from California who was influential in the Watergate hearings and switched from defending President Richard M. Nixon to...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2019 | Deliberation, Internet, Polarization, Social Media, Viewpoint Diversity
Samuel J. Abrams at AEI: Despite statements by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he was changing the mission of his company to “bring the world closer together,” data from the recent AEI survey on Community and Society make it abundantly clear that social...
