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Banks discusses the latest in Trump's impeachment with China Daily
"For those who believe in the rule of law and the importance of constitutional norms, his impeachment is nonetheless important because it upholds and reinforces the importance of those norms," says Professor Emeritus William Banks.
See related: Federal, Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States
Monnat study on opioids cited in CityLab article
While the urban opioid crisis is a crisis of heroin and illegal drugs, the rural opioid crisis of prescription drugs is largely a story of growing spatial inequality and of places left behind, most often occurring in places that tend to have a declining industrial base, finds a study co-authored by Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.
See related: Addiction, Opioids, Rural Issues, United States, Urban Issues
Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
See related: Black, Education, Gender and Sex, Housing, Human Rights, United States
Elizabeth Cohen cited in NY Mag article on ICE, McKinsey & Company
Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All, a book by Elizabeth F. Cohen, professor of political science, was cited in a New York Times and ProPublica report on McKinsey and Company's ties to President Trump's immigration policies.
See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States
Gueorguiev article on China, dictatorship published in Washington Post
"Democracy is not the same thing as providing for the population’s needs...the CCP will never commit to trusting the public over its own political interests. It will resort to force when necessary, as it has in the past, and this use of force is the very essence of dictatorship," writes Dimitar Gueorguiev, assistant professor of political science.
See related: China, Government
Reeher comments on the political impact of impeachment in The Hill
"On paper, you would say it has to hurt him [Trump] and there are public opinion data that back that up," says Professor of Political Science Grant Reeher. "But there are different ways this might be spun that we can’t predict right now. It could be that this mobilizes a set of voters in a way that helps Trump."
See related: Federal, U.S. Elections, United States
McDowell discusses history of the Washington Consensus on World Politics Review podcast
Bhan weighs in on call for Israel model in Kashmir in Al Jazeera
See related: Conflict, South Asia
Mitra discusses trade liberalization, poverty reduction in India in Economic Times
See related: Economic Policy, Income, India, Trade
McCormick discusses Mexico, drug cartels in Bloomberg, Reuters
According to Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard are anticipated to resist and challenge the designation of Mexican cartels as terrorist groups by the United States.
See related: Crime & Violence, Federal, Latin America & the Caribbean, United States