Maxwell School News and Commentary

The Truman award has become the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the United States. The scholarship seeks to fund students who possess the leadership skills, intellect and passion that will make them “change agents” for the public good in any field. 

"Let’s be clear what the bottom line is here: El Chapo should be condemned, not celebrated, for his crimes," writes Gladys McCormick, associate professor of history and Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.

"The prevalence of disappearances stands as a testament to Mexico as a captured state, where organized criminal networks have hijacked government institutions and where officially-sanctioned practices that emerged out of the 1970s become routine," writes Gladys McCormick, associate professor of history and Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.

"President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is the culmination of U.S. foreign policy over seven decades in which the goal of the peace process has been to impose a solution on the Palestinians," writes Osamah Khalil, associate professor of history.