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“I think it’s going to cut both ways. On the one hand, Trump’s negatives in New York are very deep. People are very emotional—the ones that don’t like Trump really don’t like him,” says Grant Reeher, professor of  political science. But he can also help fill the Republican enthusiasm gap, he says.

Shannon Monnat, professor of sociology, says immigration has been a demographic lifeline for much of rural America. Rural areas have been losing young adults for years, she says. “For a lot of small towns, immigrants are the reason the school and hospital stayed open and the county didn’t shrink,” Monnat says.

“Political leaders in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are starting to look more closely at their balance sheets, they are also noticing that many of these splashy investments are not nearly as lucrative as they had thought or as their proponents had promised,” says Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment.

University Professor Jennifer Karas Montez and 30 top health policy researchers warn that recent actions by the National Institutes of Health regarding a retreat from its history of informing policymakers could have grave consequences for public health in the United States.

“One point I would make relative to the Iranian president's speech, there are still splits in the leadership over there. They don't always speak with one voice, but hopefully, things will progress either before or after the elections, because eventually, there's going to have to be some kind of negotiated settlement,” Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.

“Our findings also underscore the importance that residents place on having a voice before data center projects are approved. Public participation is ranked second among the six policy provisions in shaping residents’ preferences,” writes Saba Siddiki, professor of public administration and international affairs, and co-author Fengxiu Zhang of George Mason University.

As fewer people take tests or seek medical treatment for COVID infections, viral activity in wastewater has become a key way to measure transmission, says David Larsen, professor and chair of public health. “The wastewater becomes really essential,” he says.

The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Political Science Christopher Faricy, was published in Political Behavior.

“If states are permitted to follow the guidance of the DOJ and begin forcibly institutionalizing disabled people once again, this loss of rights will expand to where it harms us all. We must work together to fight ableist policies by protecting the civil rights of both disabled and nondisabled Americans,” writes Scott Landes, professor of sociology.

Co-authored by Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs Daniel McDowell, the article was published in International Studies Quarterly. 

“Every business has their own strategy, and it’s a lot harder to track the effects (of tariffs) into consumer prices,” says Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics. “What I think is fair is that it has not sort of been a catastrophe in terms of hyperinflation.”

“The contest for Senate control is becoming increasingly competitive, largely due to what continues to come out of the White House—evidenced by the president’s extremely low approval ratings. This latest appearance of essentially a bribe by the president for a good outcome in the midterms will not help,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

“When Patel mimics Trump‘s speech patterns or media strategies, he draws more attention to himself and not in a good way, especially for his relationship with Trump,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science.

“Federal law protects both civilian and military public servants from punishment for refusing to follow illegal orders, though few employees know these protections exist,” writes University Professor Emeritus Sean O'Keefe, who served in both Bush administrations at the Pentagon, White House and NASA; and Josh Gotbaum, who served in the Clinton Administration as an appointee at the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget.

“I think there’s a narrow slice of the electorate that could potentially be persuaded and moved, swayed by that cross-party endorsement. But in the states that we’re talking about, that narrow slice of the electorate could be pivotal,” says Richard Barton, assistant teaching professor of public administration and international affairs.

“If a woman wants assistance in planning the timing of her childbearing, it is not available. This is but one-example of the lopsidedness of family planning in the U.S. Our programs are designed to assist when women want to restrict their childbearing but offer no support when women want to have children,” writes Leonard Lopoo, professor, chair and associate dean of public administration and international affairs.

“The long-term conservative or Republican or MAGA criticism of the federal government was actually not about the federal government,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “Instead, it was a criticism or a fight against what we call a vague liberal enemy, which was sometimes mapped onto the government when it was convenient.”

“Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin and should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.

“I just don’t see how they can, at least in good faith. Several other outlets made similar statements about his endorsements and recent upsets in primaries,” says Johanna Dunaway, professor of political science and research director of the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.

“Over the last few years, election denialism has become something of a litmus test within the Republican Party,” says Richard Barton, assistant teaching professor of public administration and international affairs.