Experts in the News

Potter County's GOP is trading electronic voting for hand-marked, hand-counted primary ballots. This "opens the door wide to fraud" and "removes the Republican Party one more step away from standard electoral procedure,” said political science fellow Mark Jones.

"Choice," a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, has selected fellow Kelsey Norman's book, "Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa," as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of the year.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center has renamed Rocket Park in honor of its former director, George W.S. Abbey, now a senior fellow at the Baker Institute. “He is a legend at NASA,” said Vanessa Wyche, current director of the Johnson Space Center.

After a decade of confrontation in the Persian Gulf, explained fellow Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, no countries have emerged as winners; they now face similar economic challenges such as decarbonization and pandemic recovery, and so Saudi-Qatari relations have begun to thaw.

"Voters who are most active in their party primaries show the strongest feelings on whether certain COVID policies will work," said fellow Mark Jones.