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Vincent Schiraldi, co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab, pubished in Maryland Matters

The Montgomery County Police Department recently released shocking body-camera footage of two officers berating and handcuffing a 5-year-old elementary school child. The video shows officers shouting at him inches away from his face that he was a “little beast” and saying, “I hope your momma lets me beat you.” The child’s mother has filed a lawsuit and both officers are under investigation.

Undocumented migrants have come to the U.S. for centuries. Why do we treat them differently today?

Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, was quoted in CBS News.

The surge in people arriving at the United States southern border comes as the Biden administration hopes to overhaul an immigration system often described as broken...

U.S. federal debt to exceed size of economy even before Biden stimulus is approved, CBO says

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, was quoted in the Washington Post.

America’s federal debt is set to exceed the size of the entire U.S. economy this year for only the second time since the end of World War II, a reflection of the extraordinary emergency measures approved by Congress in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday...

Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science

Andrew Gelman, Higgins Professor of Statistics, Professor of Political Science and Director of ISERP's Applied Statistics Center, was quoted in the New York Times.

Dr. Rosenbluth, who received her physics Ph.D. at 21, helped create an algorithm that has became a foundation of understanding huge quantities of data. She died of complications of the coronavirus.