Experts in the News

2020 was the worst year in the history of Venezuela's oil industry, with the country “producing the same [amount of oil] as it did in the 1930s,” said fellow Francisco J. Monaldi. 

Tony Payan, director of the Center for the United States and Mexico, shared his analysis. Payan is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies.

The CDC ranks Texas 48th out of the 50 states when it comes to vaccines distributed per 100 people — a disturbing low, said health economics fellow Vivian Ho. "There needs to be good decision-making ... at the state level to determine who gets how much vaccine."

Although not a certainty, a conviction of President Trump in the U.S. Senate is a reasonable possibility, said political science fellow Mark Jones. "The best way [for Republicans] to get him out of the picture is to prevent a 2024 presidential bid."

Local and Texas state governments are preparing for protests that could be unlike any in modern state history, said fellow Mark Jones. Past incidents have been disruptive but "never threatening."