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Professors Schaffner and Rhodes co-author How Wealthy Donors Drive Aggressive Foreign Policy. In the article, findings show that wealthy Americans and elite donors are more "favorably disposed" to American military force than the average Americans are. 

Professor Paul Musgrave featured on 22 News discussing Russian spy ship off the coast of Connecticut. The ship is reportedly part of a routine game great powers play where they listen to their rivals and try to gain an advantage through electronic spying. 

 

Professor Paul Musgrave is featured in The Washington Diplomat--an article on Sec. of State Rex Tillerson.

“White males have overwhelmed the judiciary in the past.” -Professor Goldman

Professor Sheldon Goldman has been featured in New York Times (2/14/17).
Goldman comments on Obama's ability to appoint about 40 percent of the federal judiciary and, as of February 2016, white men were no longer the majority of federal judges. 

Professor Blinder is featured in the Christian Science Monitor.

He comments on 84 Lumber's controversial Super Bowl commercial: "People of all political stripes start to sound a little bit different when you talk about particular immigrants..."

Jesse H. Rhodes writes a column about voter fraud published in Newsweek.

He explains that despite President Donald J. Trump’s assertion that there was widespread illegal voting in the 2016 election, there is no evidence of what he calls voter fraud by impersonation.
Rhodes infers that these false claims of illegal voting will accomplish more restrictive voting rules that work to suppress minority voting as a whole.

Paul Collins is featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette discussing Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil M. Gorsuch.

Collins gives his audience an optimistic quote, "his [Neil M. Gorsuchopinions show respect for people on all sides".

Jesse Rhodes writes in The Conversation about recent claims of voter fraud that occurred during the 2016 Presidential Election.

Paul Musgrave speaks of the decaying relations between the U.S. and China under the new Trump administration. 

Musgrave says "..the greatest geopolitical risk is possible".

Brian Schaffner co-authors analysis in the Washington Post in which President Trump supporters are asked to identify which inauguration photos were captured at Trump's ceremony verses the past inauguration of Barack Obama.

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