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The symposium discussed the presidential election through the prism of the declining influence of fact-based reporting and the ascent of social media and consumer-driven digital discourse.

Pace Law School hosts a debate on gay marriage with David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage, and Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.

Survey the recent crisis in Ukraine and see how the origins of this conflict stem from the last hundred years of the region’s history, which is rife with skirmishes and shifting borders.

We live in the greatest country on earth. Every day is a time to renew your gratitude for your good fortune to be living in the United States. The well being of America is your responsibility.

In this lecture professor Michael B. McElroy introduces the worldwide experiment we have embarked on through the increase in global temperature.

Emmy Nominated! There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons America's new asylums?

There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and the question of what to do with them has sparked years of fierce debate, but no significant action.

Does religion have a place in the public square? With it, can we have peace? Without it, can we have dignity?

There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible.

Colombia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs.