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03 February 2021
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Harrison Hong in the Washington Post

The GameStop stock situation isn’t about populism. It’s about whether the market is ‘real.’

Harrison Hong, the John R. Eckel, Jr. Professor of Financial Economics and Executive Director of the Program for Economic Research, was quoted in the Washington Post.

Do you think value in the market is merely socially constructed or an efficient, working system that follows certain rules and trends?

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03 February 2021
By harlowe

Timothy Frye: By trying to silence protesters, Vladimir Putin is falling into a repression trap

Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, published analysis in the Washington Post.

As the Russian president becomes less popular, he’s turning to blunt coercion

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has started to rely more on repression as a central tool, culminating in the arrest of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny and Saturday’s crackdown on protesters. It’s not unusual for autocratic regimes to coerce protesters, arrest political opponents and harass potential critics.

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Wilmot James in Devex

Consensus or chaos? Pandemic response hinges on trust, experts say

Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP, was quoted in Devex.

Trust is a key reason for the wide variance in how countries have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic, determining why some have succeeded in containing the virus while others have failed, according to new research on responses across 23 countries...

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Worried About Long-Term Scarring to Economy: Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and professor at Columbia University, speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick and Joe Weisenthal on "What'd You Miss?" about the inequality in the U.S. economic recovery.

Watch the full video here.

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Shamus Khan in The Guardian

We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology, was quoted in The Guardian.

Peter Turchin is not the first entomologist to cross over to human behaviour: during a lecture in 1975, famed biologist E O Wilson had a pitcher of water tipped on him for extrapolating the study of ant social structures to our own...

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12 January 2021
By harlowe

Wilmot James in the New York Times

‘Pre-existing weaknesses’ hindered the U.S. pandemic response, researchers find.

Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP and Interim Chair of the Center for Pandemic Research, was quoted in the New York Times.

How well a country has responded to Covid-19 is not explained by the country’s economic power or scientific capacity, but by how its people relate to one another and their government, according to preliminary findings of a research study.

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12 January 2021
By harlowe

Joseph Stiglitz: Is Donald Trump an aberration or a symptom of a deeper US malady?

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, published an opinion in Project Syndicate and The Guardian.

The underlying causes of Trump’s rise to power must be addressed, from taming social media to tackling inequality

Fortunately, Joe Biden will assume the US presidency on January 20. But, as the shocking events of January 6 showed, it will take more than one person – and more than one presidential term – to overcome America’s longstanding challenges.

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11 January 2021
By harlowe

Robert Jervis in Marketplace

Will Capitol attack hike security costs for Biden inauguration?

Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics (Political Science and School of International and Public Affiars), was quoted in the Marketplace Morning Report.

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06 January 2021
By harlowe

Sukyi McMahon: Biden needs to appoint a secretary of racial justice to the cabinet

Sukyi McMahon, manager of the Square One Project’s Roundtable on the Future of Justice Policy, Columbia Justice Lab, published an opinion in The Hill

It should come as no surprise that President Trump, in his attempt to redeem himself with voters of color, tried to position himself as a criminal justice reformist, even saying that he has done more for criminal justice reform than any other president. Trump’s record on criminal justice reform tells a different story.

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06 January 2021
By harlowe

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez in HuffPost

Attorney On Trump’s Georgia Call Works With Group Aiming To Eliminate Senate Elections.

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, was quoted in HuffPost.

Right-wing lawyer Cleta Mitchell began strategizing with the American Legislative Exchange Council to challenge a Trump loss long before the first vote was cast.

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