The Campbell Institute presents a new debate series covering issues of public importance with a fresh provocative format.

The Inaugural Debate, "Increasing Taxes on the Wealthy,"  is 7:00 PM, February 1, 2012 at the Everson Museum. 

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Panelists include Leonard Burman, John DeFrancisco, Jennifer Hamlin-Navias, Kevin Hassett, Eliot Spitzer and Deborah Warner.  

Grant Reeher was quoted in a front page story in the Financial Times Weekend Edition from January 21, on Congress’s reversal regarding proposed legislation to combat online piracy.  Reeher has written on legislative politics as well as politics & the Internet.  You can find the story, “Lobbying Campaign Scuttles U.S. Piracy Bills,” here: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cab465b8-4382-11e1-9f28-00144feab49a.html#axzz1k7vKs6sF  

Walter Broadnax will deliver the Elliot Richardson Lecture at this years ASPA conference in March 2012.  The Lecture honors the ideals of public service that Richardson embodied.  Broadnax will be discussing how leaders are confronted with ethical and moral challenges while navigating their organizations through change.

Danny Hayes and Matt Guardino demonstrate that critical statements by leaders of foreign nations and officials from international organizations who appeared in the U.S. mainstream media before the invasion of Iraq caused many Democrats and independents to express opposition to the war. Our study, which relies on an analysis of more than 1,400 TV news stories and nine public opinion surveys including more than 5,700 respondents, offers the first empirical evidence that foreign elite voices in the news can shape American attitudes. Read the article here.