Sam Kolitch

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Jeh Johnson served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 and General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012. He was appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama. Earlier in his career, Johnson was General Counse...

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*This interview is the first installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety Net Be? In it, we are spotlighting differing viewpoints on the efficacy of widening our social safety net, particularly in...

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Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and journalist who spent more than twenty years working for The New York Times, primarily as a foreign correspondent. From 1983 to 1989, Kinzer was The New York Times Bureau Chief in Nicaragua, where he cover...

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Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired career diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-1994, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989-1992 during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Principal...

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Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, is a human rights lawyer and disability rights advocate. In 2013, she was named a White House Champion of Change by President Obama, and she has been honored by President Bi...

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Andrew Whitehead is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Co-Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives, and an Associate Editor for Oxford’s Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review. ...

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Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, is the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Before arriving at Brown last September, he served as Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan...

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Daphne Keller ’95 is a law professor at Stanford University and is the director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. She teaches and writes about platform content moderation practices, Internet users’ rights,...

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Jesse Wegman is a member of The New York Times editorial board, where he writes editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He previously worked as a senior editor at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal editor at Reuters, and the managing ed...

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Desmond Meade is a voting rights activist and is the President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, and a Ford Global Fellow. In 2018, he led the FRRC to a historic triumph with the passage of ...

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Judy Heumann is an internationally renowned and lifelong disability rights activist. Her tireless efforts on behalf of the disability community have led to positions in the Departments of Education and State within the Clinton and Obama administratio...