Maxwell School News and Commentary

"We’re seeing consolidation in the healthcare delivery system at a rapid pace," says Tom Dennison, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. "When you’re bigger, you have more leverage to negotiate prices."

"As far as the First Amendment is concerned, LGBT rights advocates should have the full and free right to advocate for their point of view and opponents of LGBT rights have the right to advocate for their point of view," Thomas M. Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says.

The tax policy issue has emerged as a "handy" one for Cuomo to bring up repeatedly as he prepares to seek a third term in 2018, while harboring possible ambitions for a White House run in 2020, said Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

"We need vigilance and action against the threat of cyber that transcends the public and private sectors. Cybersecurity controls are necessary but insufficient in both. Cyber threats need a credible strategy to be defeated," writes Bill Smullen, director of the National Security Studies program.

Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) for the Central Time segment "How To Spot And Fight Fake News." Thorson advises people to be wary of spreading fake news just to correct it. "It's hard to . . . unring that bell of misinformation," she says.