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SUMMARY:Corruption and Power at the Top
DESCRIPTION:Ethics rules and standards are being violated every day. This is not a “draining of the swamp” but deliberate corruption. Corruption at the very top of our government is a major challenge to a viable democracy. Two leading experts will detail what is happening before our eyes and what might be possible to stem this wanton violation of trust in our leaders and government: \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pr4vlTz5Rb-97ydrypY72w \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on September 4th\, 2025 \n\n  \nZephyr Teachout is a Professor at Law at Fordham Law School where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. She teaches corporations\, election law\, antitrust\, and prosecuting white collar crime. Her most recent book\, Break ’em Up (2020)\, makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law. Her prior book\, Corruption in America (2014)\, argued that the American constitutional system has an embedded anti-corruption principle that has been discarded by the modern Court. Her public writings have appeared in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\, New York Review of Books\, Washington Post\, The Nation and The New Republic. In 2021\, she took a leave to work as Special Advisor and Senior Counsel for Economic Justice at the New York Attorney General’s Office. Before Law School\, Zephyr Teachout had a career as a digital consultant and nonprofit entrepreneur\, and represented clients on death row in North Carolina. She was a Law Clerk to then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker.\, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. \n  \nRoger Berkowitz\, discussant/moderator\, is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics\, Philosophy\, and Human Rights at Bard College. Professor Berkowitz authored The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard\, 2005; Fordham\, 2010; Chinese Law Press\, 2011). Berkowitz is editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying\, Technology\, and the Human Condition (forthcoming 2020) and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009)\, The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The American Interest\, Bookforum\, The Forward\, The Paris Review Online\, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas\, and many other publications. Berkowitz edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen\, Germany. \n  \n  \n\n\nEvent Co-sponsors: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n Add to calendar
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SUMMARY:DOGE – What’s Happening?
DESCRIPTION:DOGE-Department of Government Efficiency was created to address cost cutting goals. DOGE may have left the media’s headlines along with Elon Musk\, but DOGE remains and is still at work. What is DOGE doing and what is its impact? What do Americans need to know? How has DOGE changed the federal government and what other changes could it make? \n\nTo RSVP for the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W6izPH3STWiXPCdgJegHPQ \nTo watch the event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/NFRPP/live_videos/ \nThis event is from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST on September 18th\, 2025 \n\n  \nAlgernon Austin has conducted research and writing on issues of race and racial inequality for over 20 years. His current primary focus is on the low rate of employment in Black America\, one of the three major labor market challenges facing this population\, and on using subsidized employment as a tool to address this problem. Austin also has an interest in social housing\, infrastructure\, racial wealth inequality\, and other topics at the intersection of race and the economy. Austin has a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University\, and he taught sociology as a faculty member at Wesleyan University. He has held positions at the Economic Policy Institute\, the Center for Global Policy Solutions\, Dēmos\, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has discussed racial inequality on PBS\, CNN\, NPR\, and other national television and radio networks. \n  \n \nJonathan Maier is Senior Litigation Counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington\, a nonpartisan nonprofit government watchdog that works for transparency and accountability in government and to preserve America’s democratic institutions. Among other cases\, he is currently leading CREW’s litigation in CREW v. DOGE et al.\, a lawsuit seeking to ensure that DOGE is subject to and complies with the Freedom of Information Act and Federal Records Act. Jon is also a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. Prior to joining CREW\, Jon spent 10 years as a litigator in the Washington\, DC office of Morgan\, Lewis & Bockius. \n  \nPeter Coy\, moderator\, is a freelance journalist covering economics\, business and finance. He was previously a staff writer for The Associated Press\, BusinessWeek\, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Opinion section of The New York Times. He is a graduate of Cornell University. \n  \n. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nEvent Co-sponsors:
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