Experts in the News

How has Covid-19 complicated Hurricane Laura recovery efforts? Marah Short, the associate director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, discussed this question.

Though endowed with the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now facing ruin. Latin America energy fellow Francisco Monaldi talked about what went wrong.

"We can and must still expect a full spectrum of cyber operations from foreign adversaries," wrote Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach. "Good threat intelligence is essential to defending yourself from the inevitable attacks to come."

“The Trump administration is responsible for the single worst public health failure in the last 100 years,” said Peter Hotez, fellow in disease and poverty.

Coordinated electoral fraud involves individuals or organizations harvesting ballots in support of specific candidates, and in Texas, that’s limited to a relatively small number of operatives who harvest a few dozen ballots, said fellow Mark Jones.