Church town and mary material. The day the earth caved in, and american mining tragedy published in 2007. And in 2005 she received the distributed by the colombia journalism foundation. She is a graduate of princeton. William Mary Law School and the columbia journalism school. Theriting has appeared in Washington Post, time magazine, National Geographic and the daily beast. Some of the books shes enjoyed pulpit bythe bully doris kearns. And the strange career of james crow by van woodward. [applause] joan thank you, roger. I need to thank all of you for coming out today. Thank you for the wilson center, has h. A. , the center who shown an interest in this project. Im thrilled to be here. Im happy to be here especially during womens History Month and am hoping we can have a great conversation about mary church material and the strug Mary Church Terrell and the struggle in washington, d. C. I hope you can all hear me. If not, let me know. A few years ago i wanted to write a book about th
In civil rights and the making of the modern american state, naacp one examines how the Civil Rights Movement and particularly the naacp affected the american political lens the century. This event is an hour. I will introduce Megan Ming Francis. I will talk a little bit more about the professional and personal. Megan ming francis is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of washington at seattle. She won her b. A. In Political Science and economics at Rice University in 2003 and soon after in 2008 she earned her doctorate in politics at Princeton University where she worked with melissa harris. And cornell west. Field two positions at the university of chicago and the Indiana University school before joining Pepperdine University where she was an assistant professor for four years and got quite distant following teaching courses on politics and law in society. Megan ming franciss workers at the intersection of american politics, race, constitut
Is in their parties primaries. If you are seen as being unorthodox can, as you were saying, or as Party Loyalists would say unfaithful to the partys positions on these issues, you tend to get Interest Groups who come after you with funds. They will often mount a primary opponent that makes your life difficult. And there are all kinds of institutions now in place and resources in place that really keep the parties politicians towing a very ideological line on these issues. So more and more thats become quite unusual in american politics. Host all right. Subtitle, how issue ownership drives and distorts american politics. Whats the distortion . Guest the distortion that i find in the book is the theme with which weve led our conversation, which is that i find lots of instances where the parties actually pay less attention to what the public wants on the issues they own than on the issues they dont. So, again, the Affordable Care act is a great example. This is a policy that is pursued he
We got an upclose look at the Drone Program israel uses to get details of potential targets. This is what an israeli drone sees over gaza. Cnn got special access to this highly secure Israeli Air Force base, home to the Drone Program. I spoke with lieutenant orr, whose face and last name were not allowed to show. How do you do that . We see the picture live. We are searching for civilians and any casualty. Before israeli jet fighters actually goes out there and launches missiles, you have to clear it. Is that right . Thats right. The. The Israeli Defense forces gave this to cnn and say they spare civilian lives. Its called off at the last minute. We reach a target. As we get closer, we saw people Walking Around the main street. We immediately stopped the attack. His message was relayed to the Israeli Air Force whose f16 was ready to fight. Before we release the bombs, we send someone in the commu communications and cancelled the bombing. Still palestinians are dying and the death toll
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