Jillian Weinberger appears in the following:
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Legacy
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
New York City will soon be electing a new mayor, but the city's current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has left an indelible mark on the nation’s largest city. After 12 years and three ter...
The Conflict in Egypt: A Proxy for Competing Ideologies in the Middle East
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
As the U.S. struggles to find a way forward in Egypt, the country’s conflict has become a proxy war for competing ideologies in the Middle East. Robin Wright, distinguished scholar at...
New Report Shows More Oversteps By NSA
Monday, August 19, 2013
According to documents provided by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post's Barton Gellman, the NSA has overstepped its legal authority thousands of times since 2008. Gellman joins The...
Drug Crimes and Mandatory Minimums: A Federal Judge's Take
Friday, August 16, 2013
This week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will no longer pursue mandatory minimum sentences for certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders. Nancy...
Will Holder's New Policy on Drug Sentences Transform Criminal Justice?
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
As Attorney General Eric Holder made clear in a speech yesterday, drug sentencing about to change. Mandatory minimums revolutionized the justice system, so how will Holder's new guide...
The Lingering Stress of War for Military Families
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
The stress of war lingers not just with our veterans but with their families as well. Take Vivian Greentree, Director of Research and Policy for Blue Star Families, for example. Vivia...
A Journey From Mythology to Reality: The Impacts of PTSD on Identity
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
This week we're exploring the individual and collective experience of post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD in America as we enter the long aftermath of two wars in Afghanistan and I...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Biography
Monday, August 05, 2013
In this first installment in The Takeaway's series on post-traumatic stress disorder—commonly referred to as PTSD—we look at the disorder through multiple lenses. Former Marine and au...
A Renewed Push for Middle East Peace
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Ambassador Dennis Ross served as a Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations. He is currently counselor at the Washington Institute for Near Eas...
For Civil Rights Struggle, Economic Justice Remains Elusive Prize
Monday, July 29, 2013
Even though we remember the March on Washington for the soaring poetry of Martin Luther King's dream of racial justice, it is economic justice that remains the elusive prize. William ...
21st Century Cold War? Tensions Rise Between U.S. and Russia, China
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Snowden case has caused friction between the United States and Russia and China, as the U.S. believes China may have played a role in Hong Kong's decision to allow Snowden to leav...
Palm Oil & Human Rights Abuses
Monday, July 22, 2013
Palm oil is an increasingly ubiquitous, yet nearly invisible, substance. Consumers can find it in everything from Crest toothpaste and Gillette shaving cream to Nestle and Kraft food ...
The Relationship Between Location & Prosperity
Monday, July 22, 2013
A new study of the U.S. workforce says that where you are headed economically and geographically depends to a surprising degree on where you're coming from. “Where you grow up matters...
Analyzing President Obama's Remarks on Trayvon Martin & Race
Monday, July 22, 2013
On Friday, President Obama addressed the nation, the verdict and commented on the racial climate in the country. Was the President a bridge builder? How has his identity and his place...
New Genetic Therapy Provides Breakthrough for Down Syndrome
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Every year, 6,000 American babies are born with an extra copy of chromosome 21, the genetic cause of Down Syndrome. But this week, doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical S...
Senator Rand Paul on the NSA Scandal & Military Sexual Assault
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is backing New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand in her effort to curb sexual assault cases inside the military. Paul’s backing could prove critic...
A New Voting Rights Act
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Today Congress takes its first step toward devising a new coverage formula for the Voting Rights Act, as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony from Civil Rights veteran and C...
Snowden to Meet With Human Rights Groups in Quest for Asylum
Friday, July 12, 2013
After three weeks of silence, NSA leaker Edward Snowden is meeting with international human rights workers today from his base in the Moscow Airport. In an email invitation to groups ...
Ramadan at Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sundown on Monday night. And with it, millions of Muslims around the world began abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours, in the...
The Surprising Benefits of Nostalgia
Thursday, July 11, 2013
For nearly five centuries, doctors classified nostalgia as a disease, even a form a psychosis. Recent research has shed new light on nostalgia, John Tierney, science columnist for Tak...