WRITTEN COMMENTARY
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Biden’s push for human rights includes needed democracy-building at home
Washington Post, July 11, 2022
Kidnappings of missionaries has long been a thorny problem for the United States
Washington Post, October 27, 2021
Joe Biden can learn from John F. Kennedy’s record on human rights
Washington Post, November 23, 2020
Beyond “The Architect”
Sources and Methods: A Blog of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, July 23, 2018
1968 Was an Anniversary Year for Human Rights. Few People Noticed
Hindsights, May 4, 2018
Can Rex Tillerson prove human rights is on White House agenda?
The Hill, March 9, 2018
Is Rex Tillerson pivoting on human rights?
Washington Post, March 2, 2018
Bridging the Gap between Academia and the Public
Texas National Security Review, February 20, 2018
Can Congress pressure the White House on human rights?
The Conversation, July 6, 2017
Is the Trump administration abandoning human rights?
The Washington Post, July 2, 2017
Four Key Times Presidential Nominees Failed to Gain Senate Confirmation
The Conversation, January 10, 2017 (Reprinted in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Huffington Post, Salon, Government Executive, and Business Insider, among others)
An Activist’s Playbook: How to Influence Trump’s Cabinet and Policies
The Conversation, December 6, 2016 (Reprinted in Huffington Post and Salon, among others)
MEDIA
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The Postwar Transformation of American Democracy
How to Fix Democracy, March 4, 2024
Human Rights as a U.S. Foreign Policy Concern
Vistas: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, February 6, 2023
Episode 261 Sarah Snyder
Byron Williams, The Public Morality, July 26, 2022
Red Pill, Part II: Blind Ambitions
Democracy in Danger, University of Virginia’s Deliberative Media Lab, September 15, 2021
Agents of the Future: The 45th Anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group
Helsinki on the Hill, June 17, 2021
Social Movements, Human Rights and US Foreign Policy
International History Declassified, History and Public Policy Program, The Wilson Center, December 9, 2020
U.S. Human Rights Policy
on The President’s Inbox
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Academic Minute, July 30, 2018
Reading at Politics & Prose at the Wharf
via C-SPAN, March 28, 2018
Interview on Sirius XM’s The Laura Coates Show
April 3, 2018
The Trump Administration and Human Rights
WBUR’s On Point, July 17, 2017
Image credits
Top section background: Secretary of State George Shultz and United States Ambassador to the Madrid CSCE Review Meeting Max Kampelman discuss the negotiations in Madrid with President Ronald Reagan on July 13, 1983. Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library.
Journal Articles background: President Gerald R. Ford signs legislation creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe as Representative Millicent Fenwick and Senator Clifford Case, the bill’s sponsors, observe. Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library.
Scholarly Chapters background: Jimmy Carter hosts a ceremony commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. – NARA – 182626. via Wikimedia.
Scholarly Essays background: Soviet Union stamp, 15th anniversary of Universal Human Rights Declaration, end of colonialism; 1963, 6 kop., used, CPA No. 2963. via Wikimedia.
Authored Reviews background: Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg confers with Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One. LBJ Library Photo by Yoichi Okamoto.