Smullen discusses defense budget, State Dept funding on Sputnik Radio
Bill Smullen, director of the National Security Studies program, is concerned that the U.S. State Department could receive less funding to accommodate the proposed 10 percent hike in military spending. "I am a big advocate of making sure that the diplomatic arm of the United States is as strong as it can possibly be," he says.
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Engelhardt's research cited in NY Times article on retirement
Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics, and his team's research concluded that people who continued to work past retirement age enjoyed an increase in the size of their networks of family and friends of 25 percent. The social networks of retired people, on the other hand, shrank during the five-year period.
Reeher weighs in on sub-cabinet vacancies on NPR's Marketplace
According to Professor of Political Science Grant Reeher, "A lot of prominent Republicans, the usual suspects, either aren't interested or they were critical of the Trump campaign so therefore, they are not being looked at."
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Boroujerdi cited in New Yorker article on Trump's hotel in Azerbaijan
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Thompson discusses closing, merging congregations on CNYCentral
According to Margaret S. Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, some religious congregations may leave their buildings, but other groups can replace them, often representing groups that are new or growing in the community.
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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Local Sales Tax Adoption in US Counties: Internal and External Forces
Meghan Mistry, senior with PSc minor, recounts time at Syracuse
Lambright weighs in on plans for Mars exploration in FiveThirtyEight
“The moon program looks more and more like an astounding aberration in the American political context. The space station does show it’s feasible to have a long-term program, but it has to be maintained by a sequence of presidents and a sequence of NASAs. And that’s the dilemma,” says Professor Harry Lambright.
Fernandez de Castro quoted in US News article on Mexico and NAFTA
"From the far right to the far left, we all hate Mr. Trump," said Professor Rafael Fernández de Castro, who served as an adviser to former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. "I have never seen this consensus in Mexico. Mexicans are rallying around it."
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Reeher discusses lower-level political appointees in Washington Examiner
"These are the folks who actually attempt to implement the policy changes that the administration is trying to push down from above," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, about the importance of political appointees below the Cabinet level.
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Examining Educational Inequalities in Two National Systems: A Comparison of the North African Second Generation in France and the Mexican Second Generation in the United States
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Taylor discusses life inside Russia today on Diffusion podcast
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, was interviewed on the Carnegie Corporation of New York's "Diffusion" podcast.