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Newswise: WashU Expert: Increasing moderate voters’ participation in primaries can help combat hyperpartisanship
Released: 20-Jul-2022 12:25 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Increasing moderate voters’ participation in primaries can help combat hyperpartisanship
Washington University in St. Louis

On Aug. 2, voters in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington will vote in their states’ primary elections. Thirteen more states will hold primary elections through August and September.In many districts where the general election isn’t competitive, the outcomes of these primary elections likely will decide who wins in November.

Released: 18-Jul-2022 3:10 PM EDT
Fed Stress Test’s Non-Transparency: Why it Hampers Banks
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith risk expert Clifford Rossi explains the extent to which banks are hampered by not getting to see the Federal Reserve’s stress test model and how this can affect the economy.

   
Released: 11-Jul-2022 10:30 AM EDT
What’s changed in Cuba in the year since the protests?
University of Miami

University of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.

Newswise: Mass shootings: Conservative, liberal social media users starting to agree — enough is enough, says @UNLV researcher
Released: 8-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Mass shootings: Conservative, liberal social media users starting to agree — enough is enough, says @UNLV researcher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Schoolchildren huddled in Uvalde, Tex. classrooms as classmates and teachers are cut down by a rogue gunman. A peaceful weekend afternoon at a Buffalo, N.Y. grocery store interrupted by a white supremacist who sprays the aisles of elderly, predominantly African American weekend shoppers with an AR-15 style rifle. Only five months into the year, these attacks tallied as the 198th and 214th U.

Released: 29-Jun-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Scholars: Insurrection Hearings Supply Epic Storytelling, No Clear Ending
University of Miami

The Jan. 6 hearings investigating the facts and causes of the domestic terrorism attack on the U.S. Capitol are a colossal storytelling feat with a myriad of possible outcomes, according to communications and constitutional law specialists at the University of Miami.

Released: 24-Jun-2022 9:20 AM EDT
Extreme Risk Protection Orders to Prevent Mass Shootings: What Does the Research Show?
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

Mass shooters frequently share their plans, creating opportunities to intervene. Experts from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program provide an overview of the research on mass shootings and the “red flag” laws or extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) designed to stop them.

Released: 22-Jun-2022 3:25 PM EDT
WashU Expert: SCOTUS ruling hints at why religious freedom means living with views we don’t like
Washington University in St. Louis

While the ruling in the Maine case is unsurprising giving the court’s recent decisions around freedom of religion, some of the rhetoric around the case misrepresents the role of constitutional protections for religion in a pluralistic society, said John Inazu, expert on law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Discuss the Federal’s Reserve Interest Rate Increase
Released: 16-Jun-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Discuss the Federal’s Reserve Interest Rate Increase
 Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University faculty are available to discuss what the Fed’s three-quarters of a percentage point increase means for consumers, businesses, and the economy.

   


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