News: Faculty and Staff

Prof. Aseem Prakash and Grad Sandra Ahmadi on The Regulatory Review, "Climate Change and Price Stability Mandates at Central Banks"
Sep 15, 2021
Gowen Hall
Recent Retirees: Karen Litfin and Susanne Recordon
Sep 8, 2021
Asli Cansunar
New Faculty: Asli Cansunar
Sep 8, 2021
John Wilkerson
Letter from the Chair, Autumn 2021 
Sep 8, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes,, "U.S. Climate Agenda In The Aftermath Of The Afghanistan Withdrawal"
Aug 26, 2021
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Prof. Anthony Gill in the Wall Street Journal, "Economics Explains the Taliban’s Rapid Advances"
Aug 19, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Wildfires, Heatwaves, And The IPCC Report: Yet Climate Policy Is Losing Steam"
Aug 16, 2021
Prof. James Long on Voice of America's Straight Talk Africa Discussing Investigating Former Leaders
Aug 5, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Why Are New York And Seattle Mayoral Candidates Not Talking About Climate Change?"
Jul 30, 2021
Michael D. Ward
Remembering Prof. Michael Ward
Jul 20, 2021
Prof. Anthony Gill on the AIER site, "The High Price of Popcorn"
Jul 16, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Including Tree Equity In The Climate Pledge: Here’s How Amazon Can Help Address The Heat Island Effect"
Jul 9, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker Research Quoted in NYT, "Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up"
Jul 9, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Regulatory Review, "Why Local Communities May Support Nuclear Energy"
Jul 6, 2021
Profs. Long, Smith and Menaldo on The Conversation, "Why nobody will ever agree on whether Covid lockdowns were worth it"
Jun 29, 2021
Prof. Victor Menaldo on Divided We Fall site, "In Defense of the Marketplace of Ideas"
Jun 29, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Heat Waves Are A Local Health Hazard: Firms Should Plant Trees In Poor Neighborhoods"
Jun 24, 2021
Prof. Jake Grumbach in the UW News, "Our democracy is fundamentally at stake"
Jun 10, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Oil Industry’s Fluctuating Fortunes: Recent Wins And Losses In Climate Policy"
Jun 2, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker in The Guardian, "The fight to whitewash US history: ‘A drop of poison is all you need’"
May 25, 2021
Prof. Rachel Cichowski wins a UW 2021 Research Mentor Award
May 21, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "The Lack Of EV Charging Stations Could Limit EV Growth"
May 5, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Here’s Why Domestic Politics Shaped Biden’s Climate Summit Agenda"
Apr 29, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker's Work Cited in The Guardian, "Millions of Americans think the election was stolen. How worried should we be about more violence?"
Apr 28, 2021
Prof. Jake Grumbach in The Economist, "In America, Republican-led states arerolling back electoral and civil liberties"
Apr 19, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Nomadland, Economic Disruption, And The Need For 'Just Climate Transition'”
Apr 13, 2021
Prof. Victor Menaldo interview with KBTC/KCTS, "Cancel Culture"
Apr 12, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker in Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, "Status Threat: Moving the Right Further to the Right?"
Mar 31, 2021
Prof. Jake Grumbach in The New York Times, "The G.O.P. Has Some Voters It Likes and Some It Doesn’t"
Mar 31, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Monkey Cage, "It’s World Water Day. Here’s why democracies do better at delivering water equally to all."
Mar 29, 2021
Antitrust in the crosshairs: How necessary is it to reform competition policy?
Mar 29, 2021
Prof. Victor Menaldo on The Conversation, "Prosecuting ex-presidents for corruption is trending worldwide – but it’s not always greatfor democracy"
Mar 22, 2021
Prof. Sophia Jordán Wallace in The Washington Post, "Americans support releasing migrant children from detention and oppose familyseparation, new data shows"
Mar 16, 2021
John Wilkerson
Letter from the Chair, Spring 2021
Mar 4, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker on Vox site, "The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts"
Mar 3, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker in The Washington Post, "Why the GOP can’t quit Trump"
Mar 2, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Carbon-Free Electricity Requires Policies To Build And Finance Transmission And Storage"
Feb 24, 2021
Prof. Victor Menaldo on Venture Beat, "Breaking up Big Tech–A solution in search of a problem"
Feb 19, 2021
Prof. Assem Prakash on Forbes, "Fights over Indian Farms Laws Ignore Green Revolution’s Climate And Economic Problems"
Feb 17, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker in The Seattle Times, "A UW professor explains why the GOP, even now, just can’t quit Trump"
Feb 16, 2021
Profs. James Long and Victor Menaldo on Venture Beat, "From the election lie to GameStop: How to stop social media algorithms from hurting us"
Feb 9, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker in UW News, "New nationwide survey shows MAGA supporters’ beliefs about the pandemic, the election and the insurrection"
Feb 9, 2021
Profs. James Long and Victor Menaldo in The Seattle Times, "Section 230: Friend, not foe, of free speech"
Jan 26, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker on KUOW's Seattle Now, "Uniting a divided America won't be easy"
Jan 22, 2021
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"Why is this Happening?" Profs. James Long & Megan Francis on the Capitol Riot and the 2020 Election
Jan 20, 2021
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Political Economy Forum Podcast – “Free Speech on Social Media” – with Prof. Victor Menaldo
Jan 20, 2021
Prof. Lance Bennett on the UW CMJD site, "We the people? Time for Truth about Democracy in America"
Jan 15, 2021
John Wilkerson
Letter from the Chair, Winter 2021
Jan 14, 2021
Profs. James D. Long and Victor Menaldo in The Conversation, "Why Trump’s challenges to democracy will be a big problem for Biden"
Jan 12, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Blind Spots In Climate Policy: EV Supply Chain And Climate Adaptation"
Jan 8, 2021

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