by jpitney | Mar 26, 2022 | Journalism
REMINDER: DREIER ROUNDTABLE OP-ED CONTEST CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Spring 2022 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article, of the kinds that appear in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue...
by jpitney | Mar 25, 2022 | civic virtue, Civility
From Washington State University: The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, domestic threats to democracy and the role young people must play in securing the future of the United States were among the topics discussed by former Sectary of Defense James Mattis during...
by jpitney | Mar 24, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
A March 16 release from Rep. Ashley Hinson: Today, Representatives Cheri Bustos (IL-17) and Ashley Hinson (IA-01), both former journalists, introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the journalists, reporters, and documentarians risking their safety and sacrificing...
by jpitney | Mar 23, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Ukraine
At Time, Sebastian Unger writes of journalists who risk death: Without the work of these brave people there could be no such thing as democracy or freedom in the world—elections would be stolen, war crimes would be denied, injustices would be hidden. In a world...
by jpitney | Mar 22, 2022 | Deliberation, Russia, Ukraine
At PolitiFact, Angie Drobnic Holan explains what Governor Schwarzenegger did write in his message to the Russian people. Start in a friendly way. Schwarzenegger doesn’t address the hardest thing first. On the contrary, he begins the video by thanking “my dear...
