Foreign Affairs Circle

The drug war in Mexico has caused some U.S. analysts to view Mexico as a failed or failing state. While these fears are exaggerated, the problems of widespread crime and violence, government corruption, and inadequate access to justice pose grave challenges for the Mexican state. The Obama administration has therefore affirmed its commitment to assist Mexico through continued bilateral collaborati...

Dr. Zaino frequently comments on political and electoral issues in the media. Her work has been published in USA Today, The Washington Post, Newsday, Huffington Post, The Albany Times Union, The New Jersey Star Ledger, and the Journal News. She has also been quoted in publications as varied as the Christian Science Monitor, Real Clear Politics, New York Daily News, New York Post, Journal News, Int...

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, includ...

The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic righ...

William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. When Buckley launched National Review in 1955, conservatism was a beleaguered, fringe segment of the Republican Party. Three decades later Ronald Reagan-who credited National Review with shaping his beliefs-was in the White House. Buckley a...

James Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer and author from Buffalo, New York. He graduated from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in 1975 and obtained a degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1983. In law school, he was writing assistant to Dean David G. Trager, later a federal judge in the Eastern District of Ne...

Mark Krikorian, the grandson of Armenian immigrants, is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He is also a longtime contributor to National Review and National Review Online and is the nation's most frequently quoted immigration expert.

Mark Krikorian, the grandson of Armenian immigrants, is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He is also a longtime contributor to National Review and National Review Online and is the nation's most frequently quoted immigration expert.

Joe Brewster, M.D., a graduate of Stanford University and a Harvard Medical School trained psychiatrist, uses his training as a foundation for approaching the social issues he tackles as a producer and director. Brewster wrote and directed THE KEEPER; which was an official selection in the dramatic narrative competition section of the 1996 Sundance Film. Brewster’s work has appeared on PBS, Showti...

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University's School of Management. He is also the founder, president, and CEO of the Yale-affiliated Chief Executive Leadership Institute. Andrew Ward is an Assistant Professor at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia.

Richard M. Perloff is a scholar of persuasion and political communication perceptions and effects. The author of academic textbooks on persuasion and political communication, as well as theoretical review articles on mass communication, he is a professor of communication, psychology, and political science at Cleveland State University

Joshua Bloom is a Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche Center at UCLA. He is the co-editor of Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy and the collection editor of the Black Panther Newspaper Collection. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. is Professor of History at UC Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar American, Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Bri...

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James Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he directs the Center for the American University. He has served as executive director and trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation, and has taught political science at several prominent universities. He is a frequent contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The New C...

How do we choose a candidate

A chat with ProfessorI George E. Marcus. He is professor of political science at Williams College and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books, including, most recently, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics, and Politics.

A chat with Nikita Breznikov. He was a former 27 year police sergeant in Baltimore. He was the Department’s Domestic Violence Coordinator for several years, working closely with The House of Ruth and other organizations helping to protect victims and assist in the prosecution of the perpetrators, knows law enforcement. He is also an actor starring in the action film Brush with Danger. Now availabl...

A chat with Bill Ayers on Common Core, the democratic race and more. William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior Bill AyersUniversity Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in interpretive and qualitative...

An update on the Middle East with Dr. Amirkhizi. Our guest is Former Senior Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan and professional public policy analyst, Dr. Mohammad Amirkhizi.

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

Dr. Carlos chats about whether or not an increase in the minimum wage is a good idea with Professor Meer. Jonathan Meer attended Princeton University for his undergraduate degree and Stanford University for his Ph. D. His recent work focuses on different aspects of charitable giving, including social pressure and long-term habit formation. In his free time, he enjoys bicycling, photography, and sw...

Dr. Carlos discusses gangs with retired LAPD Lt. Raymond Foster. You can find more on Lt. Foster at www.police-Lieutenant.com

Dr. Carlos discusses extremism with Professor Sherkat. Darren Sherkat is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at SIU Carbondale. He has published 54 articles in peer-reviewed journal and 11 chapters in edited books. His work has appeared in top general interest sociology journals like Social Forces, American Sociological Review, and Social Science Research. He has also performed...