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| Supreme Court to Take on Abortion |
| Karen O'Connor, professor of public affairs, spoke to NPR about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a Louisiana abortion case and the case's potential impact on the future of legal abortion in the U.S. O'Connor said, “It's almost like the witches of "Macbeth" stirring the pot because they've been waiting so long to be able to actually make substantive reductions in women's right to have an abortion.” Washington College of Law Professor Stephen Wermiel also spoke with Mother Jones. (10/5) |
Faculty Authors
| The Fragility of American Citizenship |
| Amanda Frost, professor in the Washington College of Law, wrote an article for The Atlantic about American citizenship. Frost wrote, “Through a variety of initiatives, the Trump administration is undermining the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship guarantee, and many Americans are learning the hard way.” She also spoke with The New York Times about Judge Tammy Kemp's hug of convicted murderer Amber Guyger. (10/9, 10/4) |
| Training the Foreign Policy Experts We Need |
| Cynthia Miller-Idriss, professor of education and sociology, co-wrote a piece for Inside Higher Ed about the U.S. Department of Education's investigation into two colleges' Middle East Studies programs. She wrote, “The Education Department is overlooking two key points: first, specialized cultural, historical and contextual knowledge is vital to national security, and, second, university and disciplinary structures work against the creation of such knowledge.” (10/9) |
Expertise
| Is U.S. in Constitutional Crisis? That May Not Be the Most Important Question. |
| The Christian Science Monitor spoke to Chris Edelson, assistant professor of public affairs, and David Barker, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, about the presidential impeachment inquiry. Edelson said, “To me the right term is constitutional failure.” Edelson also spoke to Agence France Press. Keith Darden, associate professor in the School of International Service, wrote an article for The Washington Post Monkey Cage about President Trump's call to the Ukrainian president. (10/10) |
| Buying Fake Term Papers Could Hurt Career |
| Literature Professorial Lecturer Alison Thomas spoke to Voice of America about the problem of college students buying academic papers. She discussed how the online college paper industry has the potential to wreak damage to the overall public good. (10/5) |
| What politicians get wrong about the middle class |
| Fast Company spoke to Capri Cafaro, executive-in-residence in the School of Public Affairs, about the challenges politicians face as they try to make their messages more appealing to the middle class. Cafaro said, “I think we need to recognize that the middle class is not a monolithic group.” (10/7) |
| Why It's Difficult to Share Info With Big Tech to Combat Election Misinformation |
| Federal Times spoke to Sasha O'Connell, assistant professor of public affairs, about the structural challenges to information exchange and policy discussions between companies and the government. O'Connell said, “We need to figure out the structural ways to institutionalize collaboration, which will also help build trust.” (10/9) |
| D.C. Remains a Strong Jobs Center |
| School of Communication Associate Professor Aram Sinnreich spoke with MarketWatch about mobile payment technology that relies on biometric data. Sinnreich said, “The deeper the tie between the human body and the financial networks, the fewer intimate spaces will be left unconnected to those networks.” (10/4) [Note: This story may be behind a paywall] |
| The Technology That Should Finally Make Your Wallet Obsolete |
| School of Communication Associate Professor Aram Sinnreich spoke with MarketWatch about mobile payment technology that relies on biometric data. Sinnreich said, “The deeper the tie between the human body and the financial networks, the fewer intimate spaces will be left unconnected to those networks.” (10/7) |
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