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Reeher weighs in on Elizabeth Warren's campaign strategy in TIME
"When you put out things that people can get behind, you also put out things that people can criticize," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, about Senator Warren's campaign strategy to release detailed policy positions early on in the primary cycle.
See related: U.S. Elections, United States
Keck discusses the history of packing the Supreme Court on C-SPAN
"The size of the court is not specified in the constitution and it's changed multiple times…in the first 100 years it was a regular occurrence for Congress to change the size of the Supreme Court," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics.
See related: Congress, SCOTUS, United States
Nabatchi discusses volume, administration of FOIA requests in Federal News Network
According to Tina Nabatchi, Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration, the ratio between workforce and number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests appears difficult to manage.
See related: Congress, Federal, United States
Pralle quoted in CBS News article on flooding in Midwest
See related: Flood Insurance, Natural Disasters, United States
Lovely weighs in on discrimination in the field of economics in Business Insider
"Many men believe they themselves are not part of the problem, yet they continue to organize sessions without any women authors or discussants," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "And I still am present at meetings where women's views are heard and then trivialized."
See related: Economic Policy, Gender and Sex, United States
Singleton quoted in Atlantic article on archaeological study of DNA
Theresa Singleton, professor of anthropology, says the discovery of a woman's DNA in Belvoir matching with people living in Sierra Leone today holds "great promise" for future research—but the cost of DNA analysis may put it out of reach for some archaeologists.
Steinberg discusses US-China tech disputes in Nikkei Asian Review
"There is an emerging dimension to the U.S.-China conflict which has worrisome echoes of that earlier [U.S.-Russia] conflict—the growing division of the world into two technological blocs, each of which seeks autonomy and self-sufficiency and strives to limit the other's access to its advanced know-how," says University Professor James Steinberg.
Koch discusses her book The Geopolitics of Spectacle on BBC Radio
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Mitra reviews effects of opening trade on developing Asia in Asian Development Bank Institute blog
"Even though in aggregate, trade leads to economic gains, it almost always creates winners and losers," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs." He adds that social protection policies "need to be in place for equity reasons as well as to build and sustain support for free trade."
Wasylenko quoted in WalletHub article on state/local tax policy
Michael Wasylenko, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics, says "highly skilled, highly educated workers find the best job matches in East and West coast cities," which are typically located in high tax states.