Experts in the News

"When Texas Republicans look at these massacres, they don't blame guns or gun laws. They blame people," fellow Mark Jones said of state lawmakers who expanded gun rights during the last legislative session.

"If I’m an evil nation-state trying to manipulate a U.S. election, I want to focus on states where a small security hack can have a large impact on the outcome," said Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach of Texas' vulnerable voting systems.

"I don't care who's in charge of Congress — they're never going to approve a budget increase that large," said health economist Vivian Ho of expensive Medicare-for-All plans.

Research on a decline in bank lending by finance fellow Thomas L. Hogan was cited in the Joint Economic Committee's recent report to the president. Learn why lending hasn't responded to expansionary monetary policy in Hogan's Baker Institute brief: https://bit.ly/2YjJPVe

"He’s qualified from an administrative perspective. But he has no background in international affairs,” fellow Mark Jones said of Rep. John Ratcliffe, President Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence.