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Turning Point USA And The Rush Of The Red Wave By Joshua Cohen

T urning Point's mission is defined in its website as follows:   The organization’s mission is to  identify, educate, train, and organize  students to promote the principles of  freedom, free markets , and  limited government .   In my view, I believe that Turning Point is an organization dedicated, quite simply, to the promulgation of Conservatism on campus and elsewhere. I n reviewing Turning Point, I've decided that given the proliferation of the leftist influence on campus (to say nothing of the media) it is a "necessary evil". I say evil because if we were to observe through the lens of the ideal (or perhaps, Utopian) perspective, it would be that there would be no bias practiced from any college professor to any given student. This is because of the "Professor Watchlist" ( https://www.professorwatchlis t.org/ ) which is one of Turning Points's more salient and controversial projects.  The Professor Watchlist monitors and calls atte

Interview With "Spotlight" Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Robinson

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Walter V. Robinson  (born January 13, 1946) is an American investigative reporter for  The Boston Globe , where he has worked as reporter and editor for 34 years. From 2007 to 2014, he was a  Distinguished Professor  of  Journalism  at  Northeastern University  in  Boston . Robinson currently holds the title of  Editor-at-Large  at the  Boston Globe,  as well as the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor of Journalism at the  Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication  at  Arizona State University , and a Professor of Practice at  Northeastern University . Robinson led the  Globe ' s coverage of the  Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal , for which the newspaper won, and he personally accepted, the  2003   Pulitzer Prize for Public Service . [1] [2]  The last investigation Robinson led for the  Spotlight Team , called "Debtors Hell", exposed the practices of debt collectors. [3]  That work was a finalist for the  Local Reporting Pulitzer  in

Interview With Author And Reformed White-Collar Criminal Walt Pavlo

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Walt Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who lectures on all aspects of white collar crime and federal law enforcement. In addition to speaking, Walt is the co-founder and president of Prisonology, an expert testimony, consulting and training firm for issues on the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Walt co-authored "Stolen Without A Gun" with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg) and is currently a contributor to Forbes.com and the New York School of Law's Compliance and Enforcement Program where he writes on white-collar crime and the federal legal system. He is a Loyola Law Journalism Fellow. Over the past 14 years Pavlo has presented at top ranked business schools, accounting firms, law enforcement agencies and professional societies as part of their training program. He recently appeared on CNBC's American Greed for his coverage of the Sky Capital trial. Pavlo is represented by the speaker's bureau 500 Pearl Street (www.500PearlStreet.com). Pavlo's