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| Migrant Workers Leave Behind Clues to Depression-Era Lifestyle |
| Anthropology Professor Daniel Sayers talked with NPR's Morning Edition about new research at an excavation site in Pennsylvania that reveals clues about the lives of 20th-century migrant workers. Sayers said, “I think when we start looking at these marginalized communities, we see different ways of existing emerge. Different forms of community organization, different ways that people help one another out.” (7/18) |
Faculty Authors
| Presidential Revisionism |
| Gautham Rao, assistant professor of history, co-authored an opinion article for Slate that dissects an argument put forth defending President Trump against Emoluments Clause violations. Rao and his co-author wrote, “The authors ask a lot of us: to find a hidden structural code, but ignore a plain reading of the constitutional text; to deify Washington and Jefferson, but to defy what contemporaries explicitly said about the clause; to disregard the way the clause has been applied by presidents, Congress, and other officials from the 1830s to the present; and finally, to ignore a substantial historical record.” (7/17) |
| Trump Wants to Spend Millions More on School Vouchers. But What's Happened to the Millions Already Spent? |
| For the Washington Post, Mandy McLaren, a student in the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the School of Communication, co-authored an article about the school voucher program in Washington, D.C. McLaren and her co-author wrote, “Voucher advocates emphasize that parents care far less about test scores than education policy wonks do and that they should be trusted to choose schools that work well for their children.” (7/15) |
Expertise
| Did Russia Compromise Trump Jr.? |
| Keith Darden, professor in the School of International Service, spoke to CNN about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting and Russia's tradition of “kompromat,” an approach to gathering and disseminating compromising information. Darden said, “This is such a common practice over there, both for the government and in the private sector. It is almost inconceivable that he was not observed and recorded in almost everything that he did privately.” (7/16) |
| The Trump Administration and Human Rights |
| Sarah Snyder, professor in the School of International Service, spoke with WBUR's On Point about the death of Chinese activist and Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and the Trump administration's approach to human rights. Snyder said, “I think that we certainly would have expected, given the rhetoric that came out of the campaign, for the Trump administration to shift its approach on human rights.” The story ran in 19 news outlets. (7/17) |
| The White House Wanted These Leather Pants in a Hurry |
| Kogod School of Business Professor Frank DuBois spoke to the Washington Post about President Trump's “Made in America Week.” DuBois said, “The U.S. imports more than it exports, a deficit that, alongside the rise of automation, shrank some of the country's manufacturing footprint.” (7/18) |
| The Texas Gerrymandering Trial Could Change All of America |
| Vice quoted History Professor Allan Lichtman in an article discussing gerrymandering in Texas. Testifying in court, Lichtman said, “What was done here was to knowingly and intentionally impede the opportunity of African Americans and Latinos to elect candidates of their choice. What we see here is intentional discrimination.” (7/14) |
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