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Chancellor's Fellow & Dean's Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Department Chair. APSA Treasurer. saragoodmanphd.com citizenship | migration | comparative politics | Europe
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It was actually pretty easy for the Nazis to remove law from people. They stripped Jews of their citizenship.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Violating the rule of law continues to be the biggest story and we cannot push it from A1. Everything — separation of powers, citizenship, rights, justice — is built upon it. When the foundation crumbles, we all fall.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 177 comments

The mitzvah of the Pesach Seder is not to imagine what it must have been like for your ancestors to be freed but to “Remember this day that you came out from Egypt" (Shemot 13:3). Like *you* were freed. It is a celebration of freedom and empathy. A Zisn Pesach!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It makes me physically ill to see government officials -- no, to see anyone -- talk about other human beings this way. We lose our humanity when we treat others as objects. We have lost our humanity.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Trump promised “all hell would break out” if Hamas didn’t release the hostages in January and issued his “last warning” in March. And now it’s April. And here we are. While he romanticizes the Holocaust, the remaining hostages prepare for a second Passover in captivity.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

It’s one supply chain, Michael. How long could it take to recreate? 2-3 months?

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments