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Yale Professor Jacob Hacker joins Face the State to weigh in on the riot at the US Capitol building. My colleague Bryan Garsten nails it: Trump’s actions were a direct assault on the separation of powers and require an immediate and unequivocal congressional response. https://t.co/vKNd7YX7FW — Jacob Hacker (@Jacob_S_Hacker) January 11, 2021 Jacob S. Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. A regular media commentator and policy adviser, he is the author or co-author of five books, numerous journal articles, and a wide range of popular writings on American politics and public policy. His most recent book, written with Paul Pierson, is  American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper —a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a best business book of 2016 according to the management magazine Strategy+Business. Previously, the two wro...

A major tribute for a Bay Area Fil-Am icon moves a step closer to realization as the California State Legislature approves the renaming of a highway after late community leader Alice Bulos. ACR 165, Ting. Alice Peña Bulos Memorial Highway. This measure would designate a specified portion of State Route 35 that runs through the City of Daly City in the County of San Mateo as the Alice Peña Bulos Memorial Highway. Bulos attended UST in 1948, graduating with a bachelor and master’s degree in social and behavioral sciences. She was a sociology professor and head of the UST Sociology Department before resigning in 1977 to be an employment counselor in Sacramento, California. Bulos and her husband Dony founded the Filipino American Grassroots Movement, a campaign to involve Filipinos in the American political process. She fought for the rights of Filipino veterans of World War II and was named Woman of the Year for the 19th Assembly District in 2006. From 1993 to 2000, she served...

Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal (Author) My new book is out! https://t.co/eKuo3MSvAH — Kevin Nadal, Ph.D. (@kevinnadal) September 2, 2020 Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for centuries. Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electroshock therapy and other ineffective and cruel treatments. LGBTQ people have historically been arrested or imprisoned for crimes like sodomy, cross-dressing, and gathering in public spaces. And while there have been many strides to advocate for LGBTQ rights in contemporary times, there are still many ways that the criminal justice system works against LGBTQ and their lives, liberties, and freedoms. Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System  examines the state of LGBTQ p...