Indictment Reveals Social Marketing Expertise Used By Russian Government, Specialists
On February 16, more than a dozen Russian nationals and three Russian entities were indicted on charges that they interfered with the U.S. election. The charges were brought by Special Counsel Robert Muller, who has been investigating reports of meddling…
To Take Best Care of Vets, It Will Take More Than Proposed VA Budget Increase
Released this week, President Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2019 proposes an overall increase of more than $8.5 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nicholas Armstrong is the Senior Director for Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Veterans…
Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie Pushes for More Support for Military Families
Mike Haynie, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation and executive director of IVMF, talks with WAER about the need for additional federal resources to support military families. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Feb. 14,…
Critical Cuts to US Cyber Standards Agency Leaves Us Vulnerable
According to recent reports, the Trump Administration’s new fiscal 2019 funding plan includes cuts to the National Institute of Standards and Technology – a group that oversees measurement standards, including those in the cybersecurity field. Shiu-Kai Chin is an electrical…
How to Have a Healthy US Military – Invest in the Families Now
New research conducted jointly by Blue Star Families and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University suggests that today, only 40% of military family respondents would recommend military service to their children – a decline from 45% in 2015….
Data to Drive Future of Amazon-Whole Foods Grocery Delivery
This week Amazon announced it will begin delivering groceries from Whole Foods via Prime Now service to customers in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach. The company says it plans to expand the service to other U.S. cities later this…
Waymo-Uber Case to Set New Implications for California’s Start-Up Culture
The suit being brought by a division of Google Alphabet – Waymo – claims that Uber stole trade secrets regarding the technical details of self-driving cars. Professor Shubha Ghosh serves as Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and Director of the…
Why is Billionaire Investor Patrick Soon-Shiong Buying LA Times, and What Will it Mean for the Newsroom?
Billionaire biotech investor and physician Patrick Soon-Shiong is buying the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune in a $500 million deal. Associate professor Steve Davis teaches magazine, newspaper and online journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public…
The How and Why of Invoking Executive Privilege
William Banks, a constitutional law scholar and founding director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University, is available to discuss the issues of invoking executive privilege as former chief White House political strategist Steve Bannon did before the…
The Costs of Dismantling Family Migration
Elizabeth Cohen, Associate Professor of Political Science and a researcher of immigration and citizenship at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, is available to discuss the issues of family migration, where US citizens and immigrants to sponsor family members for visas, also known as chain…