Experts in the News

Douglas Brinkley, fellow in history, authored this article on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s approach to foreign policy.

Mexico's Congress sounded the starting gun this week for a rush of potentially billions of dollars in oil and gas investment when it passed energy reform legislation that would let foreign companies operate there for the first time since 1938. Kenneth Medlock III, the James A. Baker III and Susan Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, is quoted.

Saturday's runoff in City Council District I, which covers downtown and the East End, pits the proteges of two pillars of Hispanic politics against each other in the sort of showdown political observers love. Mark Jones, fellow in political science, is quoted.

Bob Stein, fellow in urban politics, comments on the runoff races for Houston City Council.

As Nelson Mandela was put to his final rest on Sunday, there was much talk here in Houston about his two visits to the bayou city. Here’s how founding director Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian remembers Mandela’s visit to Rice University's Baker Institute in 1999.