Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Columbia  Columbia News Towards A New New Deal Conference in Washington DC, April 9th, 2008. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." — Franklin Roosevelt    Roosevelt Publications > Roosevelt Home > Columbia > Roosevelt Publications Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): Roosevelt @ Columbia Publications Home Page - Education - Electoral Reform - Foreign Policy - Executive Board One of the chief goals of the Columbia Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution is to provide outlets for our members to be able to publish and express their policy ideas. Here are some of the pieces that have been published - Congrats to all! 25 Ideas for Election Reform “Compulsory Voting” by Katharine O’Gorman “Making Election Day a Federal Holiday” by Gracye Cheng (Harvard University) and Aaron Welt “Voting by Mail” by Isabella Jacoby “Instant Runoff Voting in National Elections” by Brenden Cline and William Slack (Williams College) “Elimination of Term Limits for State Legislatures” by Kaley Hanenkrat and Katharine O’Gorman “Ban Earmarks for Private Companies” by Jake Grumbach 25 Ideas for Equal Justice “Massachusetts CORI Reform: Reducing Stealing Times” by Sonali Pillay and Jake Grumbach “Marijuana Decriminalization in New York City” by Jake Grumbach “Reforming Teacher Disciplinary Procedures in New York City” by Clare Kelley, Nicholas Turner, and Raul Mendoza Alternet "Ahmadinejad's Speech at Columbia Is as American as Apple Pie" by Rebecca Evans and Brandon Hammer Columbia Spectator "The Battle for Political Change" by Raul Mendoza "On Volunteerism" by William Organek "War, Peace and Universities" by Evan Thomas and Nancy Huemer “Paying Off the Achievement Gap” by Clare Kelly, Raul Mendoza, and Nicholas Turner "Fixing the Problem of Poverty in America." by William Organek "Dealing With A (Now Nuclear) Nut" by James Downie "Post-Midterm, Plus Ca Change" by William Organek "Victory Gardens of Oil" by Adrian Haimovich Campus Progress "McCain Misguided about Columbia" by Anna Brower and Stephen Cox "Engaging Ahmadinejad at Columbia" by Kevin McKenna Future Majority "The Future of the United States Begins Today" by Nancy Huemer "Mainstream Media Coverage Misses the Point - Ahmadinejad at Columbia" by Sarah Leonard The Huffington Post "The Electorate Must Be Informed, Even About a Thug like Ahmadinejad" by Stephen Cox "Ahmadinejad's Woman Problem" by Sarah Leonard "The Middle Ground Between Scylla and Charybdis" by William Organek "Ahmadinejad's Visit: the Entire Campus Was the Classroom" by Evan Thomas MyDD "Iran (It's) So Far Away" by Nate Morgante "Ahmadinejad and US" by Aaron Welt The Nation “A Neo-Deal” by William Organek The Open Left "The Challenge of Free Speech" by Brandon Hammer The Village Voice "Let Ahmadinejad Defend Himself In Academic Court" by Adrian Haimovich "In Iran, a Fight Just to Fight for GLBT Rights" by Kevin McKenna 25 Ideas for Working Class Families “Single Payer: The Single Cure for Our Ailing Health Care System” by Jake Grumbach   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359