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Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, published an article in NBC.
Putin’s immediate challenge is to deal with Navalny and the protests, but the broader and more difficult challenge will be to change the deeper currents driving opposition.
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, published an opinion in Project Syndicate and The Guadian.
Joe Biden's $1.9tn recovery package is vital – but we can debate the detail
The US president's proposed $1.9 trillion recovery package will provide enormous stimulus to the economy. The economic growth that results will generate substantial tax revenues, not just for the federal government but also for the states and municipalities that are now starved of the funds they need to provide essential services.
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader threatening Putin’s rule, explained
Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, was quoted in Vox.
Navalny has worked to depose Putin for a decade. Now’s his greatest chance.
The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom he has tried to kill: Alexei Navalny....
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?
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.
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...
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.
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...