Robert Kagan ‘80 founded the Yale Political Monthly in 1979 and served as its Editor-in-Chief until he graduated. Kagan went on to work for the State Department under the Reagan administration. He advised John McCain on foreign policy during his 2008 presidential campaign and has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute since 2010.
Activists, lawyers, and policy experts alike agree that the jury selection system is broken at every stage of the process—and Black defendants are paying the price.
“It doesn’t necessarily matter what is in the Constitution. Some people see [gun ownership] as essential to their identity, so when that starts to come under stress, not only are they questioning the legal ramifications, but it becomes a personal attack.”
