Ukraine Can’t Hold Elections During the War. Does it Matter?
Originally published in April 2024 in the Journal of Democracy Russia’s brutal ongoing invasion is preventing Ukrainians from holding a presidential election and the campaigning that comes with it. What does that mean for Ukraine’s democracy? By Anna Romandash Were it...
Honoring the legacy of CMC Professor P. Edward “Ed” Haley
Photos by Sidney Smith ’25 Story by Anne Bergman December 6, 2023 On a crisp autumn evening at Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum, Professor P. Edward “Ed” Haley was remembered as a teacher and scholar who for nearly 50 years brought the world into his classroom,...
Fighting continues across Karabakh as casualties mount
Posted on CIVILNET Clashes continued overnight and into Wednesday morning across Nagorno-Karabakh as casualties continued to mount. As of 9 AM local time, “fighting continued with varying levels of intensity along the entire line of contact,” the Artsakh Defense...
Another Ethnic Cleansing Could Be Underway — and We’re Not Paying Attention
Published by the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2023 A crowd waiting for aid and supplies in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo credit: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock By Nicholas Kristof, Opinion Columnist With its Russian torture chambers and slaughter of civilians,...
Democracy is Feminist
Women marching during the Women’s Equality Day protest in New York City on August 26, 1971. It was designated as Women’s Equality Day by the U.S. Congress in 1973. Photo credit: Peter L. Gould—Images Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images BY JENNIFER...
Mgrublian Center celebrates 20 years of responsible leadership in human rights
CMC Professor Emeritus and moral philosopher John Roth called it an “oppression-resisting, hope-sustaining, death-defying, life-giving, and joy-creating place.” Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History at CMC, called it “the conscience of...
In Memoriam: CMC Professor Emeritus P. Edward Haley, Director (2008-14)
The Center is mourning the recent passing of a significant member of its foundation and community, CMC Professor Emeritus P. Edward “Ed” Haley. Ed joined the CMC faculty in 1968 and was a key figure in the founding of the Center 20 years ago, becoming one of its first...
“Hitler Did a Lot of Good Things”: Trump and the US Rehabilitation of Nazism
Originally published by Cambridge University Press, March 28, 2023 By Ben Kiernan A newly-excavated mass grave at Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Ben Kiernan, September 26, 1980. As the mob incited by President Donald Trump ransacked the U.S. Capitol on...
Her Child Was Deported to Russia
How a Ukrainian Servicewoman Returned Her Daughter By Anna Romandash “It was shock, and fury, and fear all at once,” says Kseniya, Lebedenko, “I just could not process that they sent my child to Russia.” Kseniya sighs as she says it: perhaps, to calm herself, or...
“Never Again!” Roundtable Organized by Eastern European Holocaust Studies and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre
From the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies Roundtable organized by Eastern European Holocaust Studies and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre took place on the 25th of April, 2022 with the technical support of Yana Ustymenko, Daniella Hovsha,...