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Lovely quoted in Quartz article on USMCA
"I don’t know what the lesson here is in getting a free trade agreement passed, because president Trump did not," says Professor Mary Lovely. "One way to get a trade agreement passed is just to throw out free trade." Lovely was interviewed for the Quartz article "How the USMCA sets the stage for the future of trade."
12/20/2019

Reeher comments on impeachment vote in Democrat & Chronicle
"The fact that this in the end became such a strict party line vote, I think it’s going to reinforce the divisions that already exist," says Professor Grant Reeher. He was interviewed for the Democrat & Chronicle article "Impeachment vote stirs dissension for NY House Democrats in swing districts."
12/19/2019

Jok discusses the link between violence and corruption in the Citizen
"One thing that has not been clearly delineated about violence in South Sudan is the role of corruption as a most insidious driver of the ghastly inequities that have now come to characterize the young state as one of the most unequal societies in Africa," writes Jok Madut Jok. His article "South Sudanese may disagree on what fuels conflict but agree graft is at the root of it all," was published in the Citizen.
12/18/2019

McDowell examines affect of financial sanctions on US dollar in WPR
In his piece titled "How ‘Sanctions Overreach’ Could Undermine the U.S. Dollar’s Dominance," Daniel McDowell takes a look at how US financial sanctions affect the appeal of the US dollar as an international currency, how affected countries are looking for ways to "de-dollarize," and why finding those strategies will be difficult. The article was published in World Politics Review.
12/18/2019

Ma explains why Chinese students study abroad in Washington Post piece
"China’s education system produces stellar test scores. So why do 600,000 students go abroad each year to study?," written by Yingyi Ma, was published in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. Ma suggests that Chinese students are motivated to study abroad because of disappointment with the Chinese education system, which they assert “stifles creativity” and “entails hellish hours of studying.”
12/17/2019

Banks comments on FISA reform in USA Today
"All the politics that surrounded the headlines of this story would rear their ugly head again," says Professor Emeritus William C. Banks. "It could end up with more amendments to FISA that do more harm than good." Banks was interviewed for the USA Today story "A report on FBI surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser shows dysfunction, not political bias. That's still a problem."
12/17/2019

Lovely discusses the US-China trade deal with AP, BBC, CNN, PBS, WSJ
"A ceasefire now raises the likelihood that the two sides can find lasting solutions to the problems identified in the US investigation of China's unfair practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation," writes Professor Mary Lovely. Her article "A trade war ceasefire is just what America's economy needs," was published in CNN Business Perspectives. Lovely also spoke with many major news outlets regarding the trade deal.
12/16/2019

Ma discusses how western universities can help Chinese students in THE
"Are Western universities doing enough for their Chinese students?," co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Yingyi Ma, was published in Times Higher Education (THE). According to the authors, US institutions need to invest more in direct recruiting in China, do more to integrate Chinese students, and provide diverse networking opportunities for them.
12/13/2019

Morgan comments on US-UK relations in USA Today
How would UK-US relations have differed if left-wing politician Jeremy Corbyn won Britain's election? "I can't imagine them having a civil conversation," Glyn Morgan, associate professor of political science, told USA Today. "Their world views are so diametrically opposed. I doubt Trump has even ever met anyone like Corbyn."
12/13/2019

Maxwell, IIMB explore expanding collaboration
Maxwell’s longtime partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) continues to evolve as the institutions explore new ways to collaborate and learn from each other. This year also marked a continuation of the historic partnership between Maxwell and IIMB on the Post Graduate Program in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM).
12/13/2019

Reeher quoted in USA Today article on recent Pensacola shooting
Professor Grant Reeher was interviewed for the USA Today article "'A real security problem': Pensacola shooting exposes exception in US gun policy that leaves Americans vulnerable." "There are AR-platform guns that shoot legal hunting rounds, from a .308 on down. I don’t know what that would do if we’re thinking of the lethality it provides somebody," said Reeher.
12/13/2019

Heflin weighs in on cuts to food stamp program in CBS News article
The Trump administration has introduced three proposals that would cut about 2.2 million U.S. households, or almost 4 million people, from the program, while also reducing benefits for another 3.1 million households. Professor Colleen Heflin says the proposals are "going in the wrong direction." She was interviewed for the CBS News article "Total Trump food-stamp cuts could hit up to 5.3 million households."
12/13/2019

Lovely speaks with NY Times, PBS, Wash Post about USMCA trade deal
"It’s not at all clear that there is going to be a positive effect on jobs in the auto industry," Professor Mary Lovely told the New York Times. "This is the hard lesson of economics, which is basically there’s a lot of factors here." Lovely spoke with several media outlets about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
12/13/2019

Banks discusses the latest in Trump's impeachment with China Daily
William Banks was interviewed for the China Daily articles "Repercussions expected from impeachment" and "2 impeachment articles filed." "For those who believe in the rule of law and the importance of constitutional norms, his impeachment is nonetheless important because it upholds and reinforces the importance of those norms," says Banks.
12/12/2019

Monnat study on opioids cited in CityLab article
A recent study co-authored by Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, was referenced in the CityLab article "The Changing Geography of the Opioid Crisis." The study found that the opioid crisis takes different forms in urban and rural America.
12/12/2019

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