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Teens and adults in colorful tee shirts applaud and cheer
Commentary
'Mockery, spin, and manipulation'
Published July 28, 2017
Trump's Boy Scout speech was a missed opportunity to inspire young people, SAIS practitioner-in-residence writes / The Washington Post
Alan Rosenblatt (left) and Jack Speer
Media literacy
Confronting the real problem of fake news
Published July 12, 2017
NPR broadcaster, digital media strategist tackle media literacy in Johns Hopkins webinar
COMMENTARY
Establishment parties in U.S. and Europe 'imploding'
Published June 8, 2017
Erik Jones, an expert in European and Eurasian studies at SAIS, suggests traditional political parties are failing, cannot contain their fringe movements / The Cipher Brief
'Evening Joe'
Cable news in the age of Trump
Published April 7, 2017
MSNBC 'Morning Joe' co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski talk politics, media during JHU visit
Political science
Diversity, democracy, and pluralism
Published March 30, 2017
New Hopkins initiative examines how diverse groups, ideologies coexist in communities
Junot Díaz
Foreign Affairs Symposium
On walls, fear, and exclusion
Published Feb 23, 2017
Award-winning Dominican-American author, activist speaks at JHU's Foreign Affairs Symposium
Mansoor Shams (left) and Adnan Hyder
'Uncomfortable dialogues'
Muslim mythbusting
Published Feb 16, 2017
'Muslim Marine' kicks off series of events at Bloomberg School designed to explore the Muslim American identity
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage with crimson curtain backdrop
Foreign Affairs Symposium
'If you're going to create, failure has to come'
Published Feb 9, 2017
Author, activist, and JHU alum Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks politics, race, and writing as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium
Foreign Affairs Symposium speakers include (clockwise from top left): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Junot Díaz, Aneesh Chopra, Ai Weiwei, Suroosh Alvi, and representatives from the Veterans Writing Project
Foreign Affairs Symposium
'Alternative viewpoints'
Published Feb 2, 2017
Novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Junot Díaz among speakers for 2017 spring semester
Sen. Bernie Sanders at podium with red curtain backdrop
MSE Symposium
'I reject the idea that we are divided'
Published Nov 18, 2016
Vermont senator speaks at Hopkins a week after polarizing election