Jim Ludes, Author at Pell Center

Picks of the Week: Another Mass Shooting: Enough is Enough

There’s been no calendar week without a mass shooting during President Obama’s second term | Washington Post Deaths from gun

Why Americans Still Think the Economy is Terrible | New York Times Senators call U.S. effort to train Syrians to

The Pell Center has announced its lineup of events and lectures for the Fall 2015 semester.

The Internet is a tool that Americans use every day to work, to locate information, to communicate, to shop, and

“Man can’t change the climate.” With those words on the floor of the United States Senate last January, Senator James Inhofe

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter stirred reaction in Baghdad and Washington this weekend when, in an appearance on CNN, he

Gilgamesh, in the epic Mesopotamian poem, wanted to live forever, like the gods. But Gilgamesh was human. His mortality meant

Throughout human history, our progress has been intimately linked to advances in science. Even in the so-called “dark ages,” the

In a conversation about campaign finance reform years ago, a friend and former colleague told me that he believed “money