Maxwell School News and Commentary

"This can’t be about government doing it all. It has to be about collaboration and community cohesion. Opioids thrive on isolation. The only way to combat this problem is community," says Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.

"If the Guard is deployed as it has been in the past, there would be little those troops could do to stop crime along the border," says William Banks, professor of public administration and international affairs.

"There are a lot of things that make it tough for mayors to emerge as presidential candidates and I think its because of the fact that their records are always going to be impeachable, and the constituencies that they tend to represent have a harder time being seen around the rest of the country," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. 

"This was only the first shot," said Mary Lovely, professor of economics, about the Chinese government's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products exported to China. 

"How do you inspire people? You do that by taking care of them," says William Smullen, director of the National Security Studies program. "By having them know that you are going to look out for them."

Discussions between public and private entities will ultimately come down to how profitable a deal is in light of the changes, says David M. Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School. The requirement for master development plans will probably lead to better-managed projects, he adds.

“This is a warning. It means that when China utilizes American technology and innovation to make achievements, the U.S. will not sit aside and simply let it happen,” says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.

"I would say he’s chosen Bolton...so that Bolton can be the real hardliner in the discussions, so that Trump can negotiate on even terms, so the president can play the pure negotiator role," says Corri Zoli, research assistant professor of political science.

Danielle Thomsen, assistant professor of political science, says the formula for gaining long term power in Congress is "not a huge mystery," referring to the crucial nature of repeatedly winning re-election in politically safe districts to advance in party leadership.

Michael Barkun comments on the persistence of conspiracy theories, stating "they never die, they have remarkable resilience" in the Washington Jewish Week article "Where do these conspiracy theories come from?"