Contexts Blog
by W. Carson Byrd
A seemingly continuous stream of news about college admissions has flowed across the airwaves in the past several months. Multiple lawsuits against race-conscious admissions policies …
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by Nicole Fox
This month marks 25 years since the 1994 genocide that unfolded before the international community’s watchful eyes in the small East African country of Rwanda.
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by Steven Lubet
On the last day of her life, December 30, 2018, seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was accompanying her mother and two younger sisters on an early …
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by Fabio Rojas
Contexts editor Fabio Rojas sits down with Harvard’s Mario Luis Small to talk about whether cities are becoming more important than countries, the heterogeneity of …
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by Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address. The address followed the longest government shutdown …
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by Chandra Reyna
More than 7,000 Central American migrants are currently in Baja California, Mexico, waiting to apply for U.S. asylum. They have traveled thousands of miles, …
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by Veronica Montes
It is near 5pm on Monday, November 5, 2018 when I arrived at the sports stadium Jesus Martinez “Palillo” in Mexico City. The first Central …
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by Letta Page
This time of year, it’s always worth revisiting Norton Sociology’s excellent short interview between Karen Sternheimer and Joel Best — five minutes on moral panic, …
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by Christian Vaccaro
In 2013 and 2017, I was elected as a Council member in Leechburg, a town of about 2,000 residents. My platform included using the …
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by Sammy Wu, Emma Mishel, and Paula England
According to a recent study of college students by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and colleagues, some young women from working class backgrounds see their affluent …
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