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Our foreign students are terrified, and they’re right to be

4/19/2025 by : Rachel Beatty Riedl , New York Times

In a New York Times op-ed, Rachel Beatty Riedl, professor of government (A&S) and at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy writes that international students have felt increasingly unwelcome in this country.

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The U.K. wants to send refugees to Rwanda. That’s become a trend.

4/20/2022 by : Rachel Beatty Riedl , Washington Post

In The Washington Post, Rachel Beatty Riedl comments on a new program shifting migrants to nations in the Global South.

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Some GOP members didn’t accept Biden’s win. What happens when an anti-democratic faction rocks a democracy?

1/27/2021 by : Rachel Beatty Riedl Kenneth Roberts , Washington Post

In a Washington Post op-ed, Cornell government professors Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth Roberts write that Republican leaders’ response to the armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and other recent events suggested that some are unwilling to accept the legitimacy of free and fair elections, a problem not just for the Republican Party but for U.S. democracy more broadly.