What You Need to Know About the New Omicron Boosters
The new omicron booster shot protects against the COVID-19 subvariant that’s currently prevalent in Texas and the United States. “The key is to be mindful of your own vaccination situation and keep up with your boosters," Dr. Peter Hotez, the Baker Institute fellow in disease and poverty, told Texas Standard. You should be able to get the new one — and you shouldn’t wait, he added.
Texas Trends 2022: General Election
Co-authored by political science fellow Mark P. Jones, the first of five reports on changing public opinion in Texas from the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston and the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University examines preferences among Texans for the candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in 2022.
Why Gorbachev Mattered
"No world leader has a bigger place in the history of the late 20th century than Mikhail Gorbachev, for the pivotal role he played in the peaceful end of the Cold War," wrote former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, in an op-ed.
Legal Work-Related Immigration Has Fallen by a Third Since 2020
Boosting the number of immigrants allowed to legally work in the U.S. can ease labor shortages that threaten America’s economic outlook, wrote research scholar Jose Ivan Rodriguez-Sanchez. "I see an important opportunity to resolve labor shortages that are wreaking economic havoc."
LOREICH, A Dividing Oil Tale
The legislation that nationalized Venezuela's oil industry almost 50 years ago — called LOREICH — is part of a story without a happy ending, wrote nonresident fellow Luis A. Pacheco, in an article exploring its place in the country's oil history.