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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…
Britton Plourde Works to Develop Tools for Quantum Computer
Britton Plourde, professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to work on developing tools for building a quantum computer. This is a collaborative project…
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…
Gerrymandering: foxes guarding the hen house if they promise not to eat too many chickens
Professor Keith Bybee, a legal scholar at Syracuse University who studies the politics of race and ethnicity and director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, offered comments on the recent ruling by a judge in North…
A successful president needs experience in government.
After Oprah Winfrey gave an impassioned speech at the Golden Globes, a rallying cry arose on social media for Winfrey to run for president in 2020. However, Shana Kushner Gadarian, an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the…
Everyone Loses During a Government Shutdown
Once again, Congress is facing a looming government shutdown as legislators return to Capitol Hill and begin the fight over immigration and budget items. Congress must come to an agreement on these contentious issues by next Friday to avoid a…
Infrastructure and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
David Van Slyke, Dean of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, is available to talk to media about public-private partnerships, a topic being discussed with the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan. Van Slyke is a leading international expert on public-private partnerships and public sector…
WAER’s ‘City Limits’ Project Examines Syracuse’s Alarming Poverty Rate
WAER Public Media recently launched “City Limits,” a year-long audio journalism project that examines the living and socio-economic conditions behind the alarming poverty rate in Syracuse. According to the U.S. Census Report, Syracuse’s poverty rate was the 13th worst in…
Making the Unthinkable Understandable: New Course Trains Students to Understand and Respond to Atrocities
Uncovering and communicating the truths about human conflict, human suffering and human rights violations is a complicated but vitally important task that often falls to those who write the “first rough draft of history”—that is, journalists operating on the front…
Physicist Marchetti Named to Commission on Statistical Physics
Distinguished Professor M. Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the Commission on Statistical Physics as part of a select group of international scientists. The Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics…