Maxwell School News and Commentary
Banks explains how to appoint a special prosecutor in Business Insider
Professor Emeritus William C. Banks explains how a special prosecutor gets appointed. The explanation comes after lawmakers demand for a special prosecutor investigation on President Trump associates to Russian operatives.
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Zoli discusses Trump's address to Congress on WSTM and WTVH
"This was sort of a post-partisan moment, and quite different than many of his prior speeches in that respect," says Corri Zoli, director of research at the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. She adds, "this was one of the most well-developed, programmatic speeches...putting numbers on things like infrastructure, development, working families and national security issues."
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New Broadnax Fund supports PAIA students
Khalil discusses US foreign policy in the Middle East on WNUR radio
Smullen weighs in on Trump's military spending plan on WAER
“If I’m an ally and I hear that I’m not going to get as much foreign aid as I had anticipated or that I had been receiving because money is going to be diverted to the defense department, I’m not going to be very happy with that,” says Colonel F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at the Maxwell School.
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Elizabeth Cohen op-ed on Trump's immigration policies in Politico
"The goals of nativist enclave policies and a robust job-creating economy are fundamentally at odds with one another. A full-throated embrace of nativism at this point will mean that we are walling ourselves inside our nation only to discover that we have walled in the very people that enclave nativists sought to eject," writes Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science.
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Burman chapter on tax expenditure limits published in The Economics of Tax Policy
Baltagi large factor model with structural instability article published in Journal of Econometrics
Hou study on local sales tax in US counties published in JPBAFM
Meghan Mistry, senior with PSc minor, recounts time at Syracuse