Faculty on the News

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  An Unlikely President: Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy

  Government professor Andrew Rudalevige looks back at the career of US President Jimmy Carter, as a guest on Maine Public Radio’s call-in program Maine Calling.
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  Remembering the Last Leader of the Soviet Union

  Government professor and Russia expert Laura Henry shares her initial thoughts on the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev—the last leader of the Soviet Union, who died this week.
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  Reassessing Russia’s Climate Policy

  Government professor Laura Henry discusses the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on Moscow’s climate policy. Slow but steady progress was being made prior to the conflict, she says, but the war has derailed that momentum.
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  Overturning Landmark Supreme Court Decision “Creates National Divide”

  Constitutional law scholar Maron Sorenson shares her insights and opinions on the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed a woman’s right to have an abortion.
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  Laura Henry and Laura Howells '20 on “Controlling Russia’s Information Space”

  A Bowdoin professor and a former student explore the Russian government’s recent clampdown on digital freedom within its borders and ask how this compares to digital authoritarianism in China.

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  Bowdoin’s Heurlin on Worsening US-China Relations

  As China’s foreign minister issues a severe diplomatic warning to Washington, Bowdoin government scholar and China expert Christopher Heurlin is interviewed on Fox’s LiveNOW streaming channel.
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  Bowdoin’s Henry Laurence on “The Complicated History of Queen Elizabeth II.”

  Queen Elizabeth II “was adored and respected by most people in Britain,” writes professor Henry Laurence in the Portland Press Herald. However, he goes on to say, the late monarch’s “long-term legacy is more complicated.”
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  Bowdoin’s Success in Democracy Challenge Highlighted on WCSH

  Television report spreads the word about the Bowdoin College's winning performance in a national contest aimed at reducing polarity and animosity among American voters.
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  Andrew Rudalevige: Presidents Can’t Declassify Documents with Green Lantern Superpowers

  Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, shares his insights on the controversy swirling around documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home in the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage.
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  Bowdoin’s Henry Discusses New Wave of Russian Exiles

  Russians flee their country in record numbers following a crackdown on free speech in the wake of the Ukraine invasion. Putin calls them “traitors,” but who are they? asks Bowdoin’s Laura Henry, writing in The Washington Post.