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Professor Musgrave featured in national news

 

  • (Vox, 12/14/17) Paul Musgrave, political science, comments in a news story about how President Donald J. Trump and Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, are saying different and contradictory things about dealing with North Korea. "Pyongyang speaks with one voice. The United States is speaking with many and conflicting voices. So whom should the North Koreans – or other interested parties – take their cue from when trying to discern U.S. policy?" Musgrave asks. 

 

  • (Newsweek, 12/18/17) Paul Musgrave, political science, comments in a story about how President Donald J. Trump and his administration are facing some pushback from federal agencies where officials don't accept Trump's views on key issues such as climate change. Musgrave says it serves Trump well to be able to complain about the "deep state" and entrenched bureaucrats that aren't working for the public good. "I don't think Trump actually takes this seriously. It is a convenient crutch for him. In fact, the biggest problem seems to be a lack of engagement with the bureaucracy," he says. 

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