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  • Senator Russ Feingold — The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It

    Roosevelt House is honored to present the 2024 McNickle Lecture on Integrity in Government featuring former senator Russ Feingold on his new book, The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It, co-authored with legal scholar Peter Prindiville. In this urgent analysis, Senator Feingold carefully examines what he sees as a “hushed” effort […]

  • Congestion Pricing: The Vision & The Implementation

    2024 Kheel Lecture on Transportation Policy Congestion Pricing: The Vision & The Implementation Please join us for the Theodore Kheel Transportation Policy Lecture featuring an in-depth and timely discussion of congestion pricing. Marking the 110th anniversary of Mr. Kheel’s birth, and convening top transportation policy experts from across the city, the panel will address the tolling plan’s […]

  • The Cost of Child Poverty: Direct Payment in a Time of Need

    Please join us as Roosevelt House—along with The Invisible Americans, a nonprofit project aimed at ending child poverty in the United States, and The Bridge Project, also a nonprofit seeking to solve U.S. child poverty—hosts an urgent and important discussion of direct cash payments to care for children living in poverty. With the federal expanded child […]

  • Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

    President Ann Kirschner invites you to join her for a Book Party for Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in conversation with actor and author Stephen Lang, Avatar, Gettysburg. Harold’s latest book Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration was released to rave reviews in February. The book is being called “a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the […]

  • India’s Economy: Miracle or Debacle for Human Development?

    Roosevelt House Human Rights Program, in collaboration with Scroll, are pleased to present a facilitated discussion with Indian-American Economist, Ashoka Mody, and Hunter College Professor of Economics, Karna Basu, as they discuss Mody’s book India is Broken.  Karna Basu is an Associate Professor of Economics at Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt […]

  • James G. Basker — Black Writers of the Founding Era

    Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new Library of America anthology Black Writers of the Founding Era featuring the historian, author, and editor of the volume James G. Basker in conversation with television writer and author Susan Fales-Hill. The richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled, Black Writers of the Founding Era offers a vital and […]

  • Terry Golway — I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

    Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of historian Terry Golway’s new book I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters. In this vivid and entertaining chronicle, Golway illuminates the enduring impact and relevance of La Guardia’s mayoralty—and shows why, more than 75 years after his death, […]

  • The 2024 Jack Newfield Lecture — Dan Barry — Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings

    We are proud to continue our tradition of public conversations and lectures in the name of legendary investigative journalist and Hunter alumnus Jack Newfield (’60), illuminating his enduring relevance and influence. To do so, Roosevelt House is additionally proud to welcome esteemed New York Times reporter, columnist, and author Dan Barry. He will be in conversation with veteran newspaperman Michael Daly about the […]

  • Alan Mallach — Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth

    Roosevelt House is pleased to present a lecture and facilitated discussion with urban policy expert Alan Mallach on his new book Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth. Over the past hundred years, the global mantra on growth has been “more, more, more” – growth of population, of the built environment, of human and […]

  • Know Your Rights: Gender Identity and Expression Discrimination Protections in New York City

    Join the LGBTQ Policy Center and the Sorensen Center at CUNY Law for a “Know Your Rights” training session on gender identity/expression discrimination protections and self-guided Name Change trainings. This training will provide a holistic and approachable way to navigate the legal system. This “Know Your Rights” workshop was created as part of the TGNC Rights Incubation […]

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