Professor Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El País about Mexico’s justice and security system, which he argues was shaped under the PRI to fail by design—favoring corruption, discretion, and political control over real justice. He explains that violence became part of the system itself, allowing criminal and state interests to merge and sustain each other. Read the full interview here. 

Professor Hannah Farber is 1 of 17 U.S Historians appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ distinguished lectureship program. Read the full announcement here. 

Professor Kim Phillips-Fein‘s latest article in The Nation, “How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump’s Theory of the State,” examines the historical precedent behind Trump’s political rise, as well as the economic conditions of the 1990s that lacked the constraints of corporate capitalism from an earlier era. Read the full article here.

Professor Mae Ngai published an article in The New York Review of Books, “The End of Asylum,” which explores how the second Trump administration has eliminated the distinction between political and economic migrants and questions if this distinction was ever a sensible one. Read the full article here.

Professor Lori Flores was interviewed about food labor and ICE raids on Irish National Radio’s Saturday morning show “The Business.” Watch the full interview here, with Professor Flores’s segment beginning at 36:30.

On 9/16, Professor Rebecca Kobrin spoke on a panel for the Metropolitan Opera at Temple Emanuel about the new Kavalier and Clay opera with composer Mason Bates (Columbia ’03), producer Bartlett Scher, and librettist Gene Scheer. See a recording of this panel here.