Experts in the News

Health economist Vivian Ho is quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the options for providing affordable health care to all Americans: https://lat.ms/2ErqmH8

Vivian Ho, director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, comments on a federal judge's ruling declaring the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Houston Chronicle: http://bit.ly/2Bp0HM3

Simply introducing single-use plastic bans without first defining the problem and contemplating a practical, holistic plan is premature and will result in rudimentary, misguided and dead-end policies, fellow Rachel Meidl writes in a Houston Chronicle op-ed.

The fallout from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi "looks set to really impact U.S.-Saudi ties very negatively in 2019, regardless of what the Trump administration thinks it can do to stop or prevent it," said Middle East fellow Kristian Ulrichsen in a roundup of major developments in the Middle East.

Senior energy fellow Kenneth Medlock discusses the reasons behind a growing demand for oil worldwide.