D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University Brandy Hadley, Associate Professor of Finance and the David A. Thompson Distinguished Scholar of Applied Investments, Appalachian State University The case of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced on March 28, 2024, to 25…
Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University – Newark It’s hard to process the news of the president’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis without having recourse to some kind of mythological system, some larger frame of reference.…
Gordon Adams, American University School of International Service If President Donald Trump is too sick to perform his duties, it’s not clear what might happen to the country’s national security and foreign…
Jennifer Spindel, University of New Hampshire; Matt Motta, Oklahoma State University, and Robert Ralston, University of Minnesota White nationalist groups, who make up some of the most serious terror threats in the…
Robert M. Adelman, University at Buffalo and Lesley Reid, University of Alabama The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Undocumented immigration does not increase the…
Brian Glyn Williams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth One common claim by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has been that his administration beat IS, or what’s formally known as the Islamic State terrorist…
Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware When the Taliban recently voiced its hope that Donald Trump would win a second term because he would withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, it was a reminder…
Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York With so much unclear about the upcoming presidential election, it’s nice to know that there is one absolute certainty. Mail-in ballots may take…
Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera, Indiana University Puerto Ricans requested statehood on Nov. 3, 2020, with 52.3% of voters asking to change the island’s status from unincorporated territory to U.S. state. This…
Hector Amaya entered the United States illegally from El Salvador in 2004. Despite currently being allowed to live and work legally in the US under the government’s Temporary Protection Status (TPS), Amaya lives in constant…