A UMass poll found that 70% of voters aged 18 to 29 in the commonwealth support the right for incarcerated people to vote. This is cited in an article covering Wednesday’s hearing in front of the Election Laws Committee as law makers work on restoring voting rights to incarcerated people.(MassLive, 9/14/23)

Lauren McCarthy, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science was quoted in a Reuters Article titled ' The critics of Russia's war in Ukraine caught in jail 'carousel'’. The piece described how Russia has cracked down on criticism of the war in Ukraine. “Russian authorities aren’t dragging someone off the street and sticking them with a criminal charge,” McCarthy says. (Reuters, 9/7/23)

Paul Musgrave, Professor of Political Science, discussed his recent research on “tripwire forces” on the Power Problems podcast. Musgrave says a tripwire can refer to “a small number of forces, normally US forces, deployed somewhere in what could be a crisis situation," for "greater commitment by the country that placed those forces there.” (Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 19, Issue 4, October 2023)