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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.”
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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 -
September 27, 2022
“Ants are the movers and shakers of ecosystems. Knowing anything about them helps us understand how ecosystems are put together and how they work,” said Nate Sanders, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, commenting on a new census that shows there are 20 quadrillion ants worldwide, or 2.5 million for every living human.
The New York Times -
September 26, 2022
Research by Cheng Li, assistant professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and colleagues suggests that a cyclone at the north pole of Jupiter surrounded by eight smaller cyclones arranged in a polygonal pattern is sustained by an “anticyclonic ring” of winds that blow in the opposite direction. “Nature is revealing new physics regarding fluid motions and how giant planet atmospheres work,” he said.
VICE Magazine -
September 26, 2022
Roughly 1 in 4 American adults lacks consistent access to transportation, according to research by Alexandra Murphy, assistant professor of sociology, and colleagues. “The percentage of people who are transportation insecure is about double those who are food insecure,” she said. “More than half of people who are living below the poverty line in the U.S. are experiencing transportation insecurity.”
WEMU Radio -
September 26, 2022
“Declaring a pandemic over is a little different than declaring a local epidemic over,” said J. Alexander Navarro, assistant director of the Center for the History of Medicine. “I think we were all a little bit shocked when President Biden said what he said on ’60 Minutes,’ but I also think that in many ways, he was reflecting what many Americans already think and feel.”
CNN
