Heterodox
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. My colleague Rebecca Rouse guest edits today’s faiV newsletter from NYU’s Financial Access Initiative (you can subscribe for a weekly dose of financial inclusion news). Spectacular job opportunity from the International Rescue Committee working with NYU and Sesame Workshop, leading M&E on their MacArthur $100 Million-winning project to help war-affected kids. Alaka Holla picks up the question of whether we should give up on...
Read More »Philip Weiss — Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for Peace Now
More ethnic tribalism. (Of course, this is one person's opinion, and he is an American, not an Israeli.)MONDOWEISS — News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel & the United States Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for Peace Now Philip Weiss | Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Read More »Shootings by Police Officers: Self-Control and More
I stumbled on a recent paper in the Police Quarterly entitled “Quick on the Draw: Assessing the Relationship Between Low Self-Control and Officer-Involved Police Shootings.” The authors are Christopher M. Donner, Jon Maskaly, Alex R. Piquero, and Wesley G. Jennings from Loyola, U of Texas at Dallas, U of Texas at Dallas and U of South Florida, respectively. Quoting from the paper: While the extant literature on police use of deadly force is voluminous, it is...
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