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In civil rights and the making of the modern american state, naacp one examines how the Civil Rights Movement and particularly the naacp affected the american political lens the century. This event is an hour. I will introduce Megan Ming Francis. I will talk a little bit more about the professional and personal. Megan ming francis is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of washington at seattle. She won her b. A. In Political Science and economics at Rice University in 2003 and soon after in 2008 she earned her doctorate in politics at Princeton Unive...

The same as gorbachev has been a real throwback for me. I can those days after one dictator after another emerged, they all had very human aspects. They liked jazz. Music, anddixieland so there is a kind of Human Element to him. Rouhani is a man of the system. Ease up your product of the system he is a pure product of the system. And lived age in it in at all his life. And now here he is at the top. People dont talk much about what he is really all about and what he really wants. Why does he take all of these different positions . Because the main game that is being played inside iran right am...

Says, i dont know who that is. So i published this in the daily beast that the foreign minister doesnt know one of irans most famous Political Prisoners. And it got picked up from there. Thousands wrote him on facebook a lot of pressure they released him on furlough for about a week. And then when the media pressure died down he was put right back into prison. 15, k interesting was my 20 minute debate confrontation with the u. N. Ambassador at the time when i approached him about the same issues, i said why is it that the foreign minister gets to post on facebook when its banned in iran and he...

Dissident movements inside authoritarian countries by speaking out in supporting them. This help gives them the power to rise up. That is another issue that the west does not understand. I agree with michael about missing the conventional wisdom of the arab spring. Tois fantastic to look back supposedly smart people in 2009, they said the best thing was a wise, charismatic leader call bush a alassad. They said he was a partner for these, prosperity and stability. An israeli newspaper said syria was an island of stability. Others talking about egypt is a rock of stability. All of these were fal...

Host you can join the conversation on twitter, or go to facebook. Com. And, journal cspan. Org. Well get your thoughts in just a minute, but, let me show you what the Florida Governor had to say, heres a little bit of his posting as a result of these conversations of Family Gathering that he had, and thoughtful consideration of the kind of strong leader ship that i think america needs, i have decided to actively explore the possibility of run fog for president of the United States, and this january i plan to establish a leadership pack, and, facilitate conversations with citizens across americ...