Evan Horowitz, executive director of Tisch College’s cSPA, comments on the impact of the Massachusetts tax cuts enacted last fall, noting that he doesn’t think the package is “strongly tied to what we’re seeing right now.”
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal comments on how cutting Gaza off from aid is a violation of social norms set during conflicts over the past few decades, noting that death from starvation won’t end when hostilities cease. De Waal is the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
In this two-part On Point radio segment, Fletcher CIERP faculty affiliate Alvin Camba discusses the online series of scams by Chinese organized crime groups known as pig-butchering as well as his experience being harassed online by these groups for his research into the scams.
A&S quantum computing researcher Sola Mahfouz discusses her efforts to bring awareness to the Taliban’s law banning Afghan girls from attending school, including developing online educational resources for women in Afghanistan and curriculum for teachers in the U.S. to educate students. Mahfouz is the author ofDefiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for an Education
TUSM Maine Track student Amanda Masse coauthors this opinion piece exploring why a federally mandated waiting period for sterilization procedures, created to protect individuals against forced or nonconsensual sterilization, is prohibiting equitable access to reproductive care and fertility control for people without private health insurance.
Fletcher’s Barbara Kates-Garnick comments on why private industrial sector industries are reluctant to take action to decarbonize on their own saying, “They see huge risks, they see huge investment. You need to have government funding in all of this.”
Paul Howe, director of the Friedman School’s Feinstein International Center, joins Weekend Edition Sunday to discuss the “common denominator” of conflict that is contributing to imminent famines across the globe including Gaza, Haiti, and Sudan.
Cummings School’s Wendy Puryear is quoted about her collaborative 2022 research that found a bird flu outbreak killed more than 330 harbor and gray seals along the North Atlantic coast.
Cummings School’s Wendy Puryear is quoted about collaborative 2022 research that found a bird flu outbreak killed more than 330 harbor and gray seals along the North Atlantic coast.