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Lovely interviewed by CBS News on the US-China trade deal
"Even with the enormous emphasis President Trump places on restarting U.S. agricultural exports to China, details about the pace of expected Chinese purchases of $40 billion to $50 billion of American farm products are murky," Mary Lovely told CBS News. "Nothing is on paper yet." She spoke with CBS News and Knowledge@Wharton about the latest in the US-China trade dispute.
10/18/2019

Elizabeth Cohen discusses her book Citizenship on New Books Network
Elizabeth Cohen spoke with the New Books Network about her recently published book Citizenship (Polity Books, 2019), co-authored with Cyril Ghosh. The book takes the reader through the authors' approaches to the concept of citizenship and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood.
10/18/2019

Burman discusses the cost of Warren's Medicare for All in the Atlantic
Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, was interviewed for the Atlantic article "The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All." Burman says raising that much more tax revenue "is plausible in the sense that it is theoretically possible. But the revolution that would come along with it would get in the way."
10/18/2019

New book co-edited by Sultana assesses water governance and justice
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography, co-edited Water Politics: Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water (Routledge, 2019) with Alex Loftus, a reader in political ecology at King’s College, London. The volume builds on their previous book, The Right to Water (Routledge, 2012).
10/16/2019

Thompson examines the meaning of success in religious life in GSR
"So as we look ahead to where religious life is going," writes Margaret Susan Thompson, "can we overcome an unfortunate and perhaps even unconscious obsession with size and numbers and instead focus on the inspiration that should be central to our understanding of "success," even — or especially — in religious life?" Thompson's article, "'Success' in religious life: What is it?," was published in Global Sisters Report.
10/16/2019

Lovely discusses the latest in US-China trade talks with BI, NPR
"Ratcheting up these tariffs is really going to start to disintegrate global supply chains," Professor Mary Lovely told NPR. "For some people who want to see U.S. companies buying nothing in China, that's good news. But we have to remember that every other country in the world will be doing business with China." Lovely spoke with several media outlets about the latest in the US-China trade war.
10/15/2019

Zhu weighs in on fossil fuel divestment in Harvard Crimson
Maria Zhu, assistant professor of economics, was interviewed for the Harvard Crimson article "University of California Divestment Decision Offers Insights Into Feasibility of Divestment at Harvard." Zhu says that the University of California’s decision could be "a sign that the tides are shifting" on universities’ economic views of investing in fossil fuels.
10/15/2019

Jackson discusses forgiveness after violence on WNYC's The Takeaway
"The expectations have remained relatively rigid," says Jenn Jackson. "What's happening, at least in my research, is that young people have been organizing for a great deal of time. And what they've been saying is that, you know, enough is enough." Jackson was interviewed on WNYC's The Takeaway for the segment titled "The Expectations of Forgiveness from Black Americans in the Aftermath of Violence."
10/15/2019

Silverstein to study religion, prosocial values among millennials
The degree to which religion is decoupled from prosocial goals and spirituality in contemporary young adults is one of many research questions to be addressed in the project “Spirituality and Prosocial Values in the Absence of Religion Among Millennials and Their Families.” This study, led by Professor Merril Silverstein, is made possible by a $2,898,748 award from the John Templeton Foundation.
10/14/2019

Sociologists Karas Montez and Monnat earn NIH grants
Jennifer Karas Montez and Shannon Monnat lead research teams that were recently awarded R24 grants from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health. NIA’s overall, five-year funding for the two projects is anticipated to be approximately $1.9M and $1.7M, respectively, to be shared across the multiple institutions involved in the projects.
10/11/2019

Gadarian speaks to Spectrum News about the impeachment inquiry
"This is bigger than a partisan fight," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. "This is really about the nature of what is the presidency and what can it be used for." Gadarian was interviewed for the Spectrum News segment "Misso, Balter See Impeachment As Important, But Not Focus of Campaigns."
10/9/2019

Lovely discusses US, China with CNBC, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, BI
"We'd be lucky to get away with a narrow US-China trade deal," Professor Mary Lovely told CNBC. She also spoke with Bloomberg, Business Insider, Financial Times, and Foreign Policy about the latest in the US-China trade talks and the impact of the impeachment inquiry.
10/8/2019

Khalil discusses US-Iranian relations on Australian radio program
Iran and America have despised each other for decades. The Americans see Iran as a nation of Islamic extremists and terrorists, while Iranians believe America is an imperial power determined to destroy their nation and their revolution. So why do these two nations hate each so much? Osamah Khalil discussed the issue on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program, Radio National.
10/8/2019

NAPA names four fellows from Maxwell School faculty
Four Maxwell School faculty members have been selected to join the National Academy of Public Administration as 2019 Academy Fellows. The inductees — all of them professors of public administration and international affairs — are James E. Baker, Leonard Burman, Leonard Lopoo, and Peter Wilcoxen.
10/8/2019

Lovely quoted in Business Insider article on service-sector activity
"We can see that service jobs are put at risk when President Trump launches a trade war," says Professor Mary Lovely. "Many service jobs depend on trade, not just because we export services directly but also because services go into export production." Lovely was interviewed for the Business Insider article "US service-sector growth slows to weakest pace in 3 years as Trump's trade war continues to weigh."
10/7/2019

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