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Buzard study on spatial clustering of R&D labs featured in CityLab
Kristy Buzard, assistant professor of economics, and her co-authors find that private R&D labs are highly concentrated over a wide range of spatial scales in both California and the Northeast Corridor of the United States. The authors use distance-based point pattern techniques and a novel approach called the multiscale core-cluster approach to identify major clusters of R&D labs in both regions.
Zoli discusses the North Korea crisis on CNY Central
Sadanandan weighs in on farmer suicides in India on Climate Central
See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, South Asia
Murrett weighs in on US tensions with North Korea in CNBC article
Banks discusses the Russia probe on Bloomberg Law
"I think it's a very disturbing trend for the President to turn the relationship between the presidency and the justice department into an adversarial relationship based on political points of view. The justice department is charged with enforcing the law, it's that simple, and they shouldn't be influenced to do so in a certain way by the president or anyone else," says William C. Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
Barkun cited in article on post-truth era in The Atlantic
In his book, "A Culture of Conspiracy," Professor Emeritus of Political Science Michael Barkun writes "such subject-specific areas as crank science, conspiracist politics, and occultism are not isolated from one another," but rather "they are interconnected."
Burman shares his proposal for tax policy on TaxVox Blog
According to Leonard Burman, professor of public administration and international affairs, "enlightened policy should aim to make work pay and help workers adapt. Better education and training will help. But a permanent solution would create a mechanism to automatically translate economic growth into higher wages."
Reeher quoted in USA Today on Trump's strong-arm tactics in the Senate
"No matter how strong or dominant a personality the president has, he is going to have trouble taking on an American political institution as powerful as the U.S. Senate," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
Steven White op-ed on transgender military ban published in Washington Post
"Both Truman and Trump were going against majority opinion when they declared a change in military policy that pertained to a marginalized group. The difference, however, is that Truman sought greater inclusion. Trump seeks the opposite," writes Steven White, incoming assistant professor of political science.