by jpitney | Aug 11, 2020 | Civil Rights
Farhat Popal and Christopher Walsh at the George W. Bush Presidential Center: Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders grew so bad in the early days of the coronavirus that the Asian Pacific Policy Planning Council launched a website to track them. In...
by jpitney | Aug 10, 2020 | California Politics, Redistricting
The California Redistricting Commission is looking to hire three major posts: Executive Director Communications Director Chief Counsel Job information for all 3 posts is available at the bottom of https://shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor.ca.gov/first-8.html h/t Doug...
by jpitney | Aug 9, 2020 | Congress, Technology
From LegBranch.org: TechCongress is building its next class of paid fellows. Hurry—there is less than 3 weeks to apply! See https://www.techcongress.io/congressional-innovation-fellows for details and instructions. More here: By 2020, technology will touch virtually...
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2020 | Civic Education, Civility, Deliberation
Eman Hamid, an incoming first-year student at Claremont McKenna College, founded the Purple America Initiative, a national organization to promote civility and deliberation. Last year, she wrote We are living in a critical moment in time. A moment in which the media...
by jpitney | Aug 7, 2020 | Constitution, Madison
Martin Skold and J. Furman Daniel at The Bulwark: As George Will articulated in his recent book, one of few constants in American conservatism over the centuries is its veneration of the Madisonian Constitution, not merely as a legal system to be manipulated or...
