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Banks speaks with Bloomberg Radio about the Democratic FISA memo
"If the facts are read, the FBI was balanced in making its request to the FISA court, as they always have been," says Professor Emeritus William C. Banks.
Thompson discusses Billy Graham on WSYR
Mitra comments on alleged capital dumping in India in Economic Times
"If there is predatory dumping (along with injury to indigenous firms and local labour), there needs to be an anti-dumping tax (equal to the calculated dumping margin), which is similar to anti-dumping duties on internationally traded goods," says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
Bybee discusses the rules of civility in PolitiFact article
"In a static and homogenous society, one would expect homeschooling in civility to yield a consensus on the norms of appropriate public behavior," says Keith Bybee, professor of political science. "But the United States is not such a society."
Banks quoted in NY Daily News article on Russian meddling in election
"These indictments remind us that the Mueller investigation has always first and foremost been about Russian interference in the election," says William C. Banks, professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.
Banks weighs in on secret filings in Manafort case on Bloomberg
Kriesberg op-ed on Israeli-Palestinian conflict published in The Hill
"An imposed one-sided solution will have other grave consequences for America. There has been considerable security and other realms of cooperation between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, which the U.S. government has aided. President Trump’s moves to impose a settlement will undermine such cooperation," writes Louis Kriesberg, professor emeritus of sociology.