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Greene Talks to PBS NewsHour About Reentry Programs for Transgender Women

December 5, 2022

"No trans women that I formally interviewed or met in the course of my field research wanted to or felt safe in men's housing programs," says Joss Greene, assistant professor of sociology. 

See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex, Housing, United States

Landes speaks to PBS about COVID-19 vaccines for people with IDD

April 1, 2021
"It's not been surprising, on one hand, that states have not prioritized this group, because that's historically been the case," says Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology. "It's been disappointing, because the evidence was there pre-pandemic and the evidence is there now that this group is at higher risk." 

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, IDD, Longevity, Mental Health, United States

Khalil discusses the Arab Spring after 10 years on PBS NewsHour

February 12, 2021
"I think it's tempting to think about the Arab Spring as a failure. But I think the reality is that it's really still under way," says Osamah Khalil, associate professor of history. "Many of those same issues that brought the protest to a head and the challenging of those—of the different Arab governments still exist." Watch the full PBS NewsHour interview, "Ten years after the Arab Spring, democracy remains elusive in Egypt." 

See related: Conflict, Government, Middle East & North Africa

Banks explains role of National Guard in PBS NewsHour article

June 10, 2020

The National Guard is trained to help domestically in a variety of capacities. "That said, they are members of the military, not law enforcement, so they are largely trained to supplement military jobs," says Professor Emeritus William Banks.

See related: U.S. National Security, United States

Lovely discusses the US-China trade deal with Associated Press, BBC, CNN, PBS, Wall Street Journal

December 16, 2019

See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States

Lovely speaks with NY Times, PBS, Washington Post about USMCA trade deal

December 13, 2019

"Clearly, the U.S. is trying to gain advantage in the agreement, and we did. We were able to squeeze some stuff out," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. We "got an agreement that was basically the NAFTA agreement with some updating."

See related: Canada, Economic Policy, Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade, United States

Heflin discusses new SNAP study with Huffington Post, PBS, Common Dreams

November 7, 2019

See related: Food Security, Longevity, Nutrition, U.S. Health Policy, United States

Thorson discusses how partisanship affects belief of facts with PBS

April 1, 2019

According to Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, negative misinformation about a politician of an opposing party is hard to shake, even after people learn that the original story was false.

Thorson weighs in on the issue of sharing fake news in PBS article

January 25, 2019

"Most people are not being inundated with fake news," says Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science. "That is not to say that this isn’t a problem, but I don’t think this is the magnitude of a problem that people often think it is."

Economics alum Mary Daly’s policy goals aim for widespread prosperity

January 4, 2019

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