In the aftermath of Wednesday s siege of the U.S. Capitol, attention is turning to the nation s police: How many sympathized with what happened?
Around the country, police departments are following up on reports of off-duty officers spotted in Washington, D.C. The Seattle Police Department has put two officers on paid leave as their presence in D.C. is investigated. Officers, like anyone else, should be allowed to and
areallowed to attend rallies, says Andrew Myerberg, director of the department s Office of Police Accountability. The question with the rally here, though, is did it go over the line of just being a political rally, to supporting insurrection or supporting a violation of the U.S. Constitution or the laws of a jurisdiction? Myerberg asks.
Loose Ends 1/15: Crystal Pruitt
By Pam Hersh
Twelve months ago, I attended the municipal reorganization meeting of the Franklin Township Council that featured, among other agenda items, the swearing in of a co-worker – Ms. Crystal Pruitt – as a Franklin Township Council member. Having just turned 34 years old and holding down a full-time job as chief of staff for Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, Crystal gave a speech that at the time I thought was brilliant and unsettling.
One year later, I know her words were brilliant, unsettling, but also prescient and surprisingly comforting to me during this discomforting time. Now 35 years old with a new job at the NJ Board of Public Utilities as head of its Office of Clean Energy Equity, Crystal represents the clear-eyed, unsentimental, determined millennial leadership that society needs right now to strengthen democracy and achieve concrete social justice changes.
Middle Ages for Educators website brings Princeton scholarship to an international audience
Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
Jan. 11, 2021 4:35 p.m.
Illustration source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 14964, f. 33r
Princeton s Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity have launched a new website, Middle Ages for Educators, aimed at high school and college students and educators worldwide and, more broadly, at anyone interested in studying or teaching Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
A page from the 13th-century manuscript “Image du monde,” by Gautier de Metz.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 14964, f. 33r
Jan. 7, 2021
For more than a week, the authorities in New York City have faced mounting public pressure to arrest a woman caught on video tackling a Black teenager in the lobby of a boutique hotel in SoHo after falsely accusing him of stealing her cellphone.
Now, detectives are traveling to California to interview the woman, the police said on Thursday an unusual step often reserved for crimes that are violent or high profile.
It was not yet clear if that meant the woman, identified by her lawyer as Miya Ponsetto, 22, would face any charges in connection with the Dec. 26 incident. …
By Pooja Makhijani | Jan 08, 2021
What was once considered the archetypical American household a mom and dad of the same racial or ethnic background and in their first marriage, providing care and stability for their 2.2 offspring is now far from the norm. Life choices that decades ago would have been scandalous or illegal, such as divorce, or interracial or same-sex marriage, are now more acceptable and also protected by law. Women, queer people, and others with marginalized identities, especially, have benefitted from these shifts. This is all to say: as family structures have changed, so too has parenting, and so have books for caregivers and about caregiving.