CUNY Podcasts

Since the November 2010 elections, more than a dozen states have passed legislation requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. Republicans argue it helps protect against voter fraud, but according to Dale Ho, assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Fund, these tactics have been tried...

Julian Bond, social activist and former chair of the NAACP, says that although slavery was abolished nearly 150 years ago, achieving true racial justice is an ongoing struggle. “The truth is that Jim Crow may be dead,” says Bond, “but racism is alive and well.” Bond appeared at a Queens Coll...

To present a "kinder and gentler United States," Barack Obama has retreated from the hard rhetoric of the Bush administration to one of engagement, and, in the case of Iran, he has chosen a dual track--a readiness to negotiate, while, at the same time, pushing for economic sanctions. “By offering...

Although the 2010 elections saw historic losses for the Democrats, the directional shift wasn’t all that unusual. “It’s almost always the case that the party of the president loses in midterm elections,” said Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Ce...