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Online Exclusives Oct 2020

‘A Crisis of Democracy’

Katie Townsend lifts the curtain on an increasingly besieged media and calls...

As with many topics, context is important. The times we are living in, while seemingly omnipresent to us all...

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Online Exclusives Oct 2020

An Election Like No Other

Outspoken scholar on voting rights considers the stakes in 2020....

“Looking to the Supreme Court to ensure the right to vote in this election is probably whistling past the ...

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Online Exclusives Oct 2020

Getting Real about Getting Along

Covering civil rights, criminal justice, and Jewish-Black relations, panelis...

“The first thing I lost in law school is the reason I came,” Jonathan Rapping (above) said at a BC Law e...

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Online Exclusives Sep 2020

The Importance of June Medical

Reproductive rights advocate Alexandra Thompson discusses recent SCOTUS case...

“A lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society.” Alexandra Thompson quoted fellow Howard...

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Online Exclusives Feb 2020

Impeachment: The Elusive Remedy

Constitutional scholar who testified at Trump hearings looks at the proceedi...

We are, as constitutional scholar Michael J. Gerhardt put it, in unprecedented times. During a visit to BC L...

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Online Exclusives Feb 2020

How a Mindhunter Thinks

The Boston College professor who inspired a TV series on villains says crimi...

Boston College Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess, internationally recognized as a pioneer in the assessment and ...