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Barkun speaks to Washington Jewish Week about conspiracy theories
Michael Barkun comments on the persistence of conspiracy theories, stating "they never die, they have remarkable resilience" in the Washington Jewish Week article "Where do these conspiracy theories come from?"
Boroujerdi discusses EU and Iran sanctions in ThinkProgress
Keck weighs in on impact of GOP tax law on New Yorkers on Syracuse.com
Thomas Keck writes about shifting tax laws pursued by the GOP that will hit New Yorkers hard, as the tax burden shifts from some taxpayers to others. "One of its most controversial provisions establishes a cap of $10,000 for deducting state and local taxes, the primary source of funding government services and public education in New York.
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Seva Gunitsky | Autocratic Resilience in the Age of AI
Eggers Hall, 341
Seva Gunitsky (Univ. of Toronto) will discuss three AI governance strategies—panopticism, discourse management and agency alignment—and link them to old institutional tradeoffs in closed regimes.
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Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato
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Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.