In the News
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September 30, 2022
“Of the many costs that the War on Drugs inflicts on the Black community, the practice of deliberately charging innocent defendants with fabricated crimes may be the most shameful,” said Samuel Gross, professor emeritus of law, whose research shows that innocent Black people are much more likely to face wrongful convictions than innocent white people and seven times more likely to be victims of police misconduct.
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September 30, 2022
Unlike online tutoring and cryptocurrency trading — areas that China’s regulators have unambiguously quashed — dating and other services centered on social encounters have remained relatively unscathed. “Rather than simply cracking down, dating apps are seen as technologies that can be effectively co-opted by the state,” said Yun Zhou, assistant professor of sociology and Chinese studies.
The New York Times -
September 29, 2022
Neurologists Stephen Goutman and Eva Feldman found that workers exposed to hazardous chemicals in manufacturing, welding and chemical operations face a higher risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. “Some of these workers … may have been exposed to mixtures of metals and other chemicals without their knowledge,” said Goutman, director of the Pranger ALS Clinic. Feldman, director of the ALS Center of Excellence, says their research is “critical in identifying modifiable disease factors and populations at risk, so that we can prevent ALS from occurring in the first place.”
U.S. News & World Report -
September 29, 2022
In the past few decades, developers have largely projected their vision of Detroit and its land use onto people who have been living in the city throughout hard times, says Jason Hawes, doctoral student in environment and sustainability: “That is an ongoing story in Detroit, that sort of contestation of land use in the city and especially in historically Black communities.”
Bridge Detroit -
September 29, 2022
Rusty Hills, lecturer in public policy, says there’s nothing unusual about presidents getting involved in elections, but they usually do so on behalf of the party in the general election: “In the case of Donald Trump, he’s engaged just as much if not more often within primaries and conventions and nominating contests. … That’s getting pretty far in the weeds.”
USA Today -
September 28, 2022
The decline in abortion and voting rights is rooted in practices like gerrymandering and in Republicans winning the presidency but not the popular vote, says Jonathan Hanson, lecturer in public policy: “What’s happening now is a violation of democracy. We have minority rule and rights of the majority being taken away.” But Michigan ballot initiatives this fall provide hope, says Anna Kirkland, professor of women’s and gender studies: “We could be a state where voter suppression efforts are hard to pull off … with a lot of voting access and constitutionally protected reproductive rights.”
Michigan Advance -
September 28, 2022
“We can celebrate Detroit’s legacy as a city of homeowners while also making clear that being a majority-renter city is not a point of shame. The real shame lies in our government’s failure to enact and implement policies that could guarantee equal rights to safe and affordable housing to people who don’t own property,” wrote Alexa Eisenberg, a Poverty Solutions postdoctoral research fellow.
Bridge Detroit -
September 28, 2022
“State justices have a central stake in this case because, in our federalist system, they typically have the final say over the meaning of state law,” said Evan Caminker, professor of law, on a brief filed by state chief justices that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a legal theory pressed by Republicans that would give state legislatures power to set federal election rules unconstrained by state constitutions.
The New York Times -
September 27, 2022
“If Trump wanted to argue that some accounting decision was harmless instead of malicious, he might have already passed up the opportunity when he decided to stay silent,” said Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law, on the former president’s refusal to answer questions in a deposition with New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing Donald Trump for fraudulently overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars.
The Associated Press -
September 27, 2022
“These kinds of interventions are often oversold to get the political buy-in and to get the resources by saying they’re going to be cost neutral. My biggest worry is that there could be very positive impacts of what they’re doing that don’t show up in a bottom line,” said Paula Lantz, professor of public policy and public health, on California’s plan to connect low-income patients with social services, expanded benefits and housing.
National Public Radio
