Politics
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Forget an escape to Canada—look to the south
Mark Massoud, associate professor of politics and legal studies, penned a love letter to Mexico City, writing that he is tempted to overstay his tourist visa to enjoy the city's rich cultural, culinary, and arts scene.
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Trump's planned military buildup is based on faulty claims, not good strategy
Politics Professor Dan Wirls warns that if President Trump unleashes another "unchecked military spending spree," he and Congress will compound rather than fix the problems of priorities and waste created by the allocation since 9/11 of trillions of dollars in military spending.
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Daniel Wirls: Time to terminate the nuclear triad
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls calling for the U.S. to eliminate all land-based nuclear missiles, one leg of the outdated nuclear triad.
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Meditation’s Political Potential
Politics professor Dean Mathiowetz talks about meditation’s significant political potential in an interview on the “Against the Grain” program on KPFA radio. Mathiowetz’s article “‘Meditation is Good for Nothing’: Leisure as a Democratic Practice” appears in the journal New Political Science.
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Mark Massoud: Three important points to help in understanding South Sudan’s worsening crisis
Politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
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Meet Carnegie Fellow Mark Fathi Massoud
The website PSNow, published by the American Political Science Association, featured an interview with politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud, a member of the 2016 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
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Rethinking Shari’a, Voices of Islam in California
An article on Muslims in California by Mark Fathi Massoud, associate professor of politics, and Kathleen M. Moore, of UC Santa Barbara, was published online in Boom: A Journal of California, a quarterly published by UCLA. The editors published the piece early because of its timeliness.
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Mark Massoud: How can universities deal with racism? Learn from war zones
The Washington Post published an op-ed by politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud on how universities can learn from post-war reconciliation when responding to allegations of racism.
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Dan Wirls: Why it’s so much easier for Congress to vote for war than peace
Reuters published an op-ed co-authored by politics professor Dan Wirls on the congressional politics surrounding the Iran nuclear agreement.
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Daniel Wirls: Gridlock in Washington? Not when it comes to military spending
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls on the continued rise in military spending.
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25 years after Bay Area quake, most don't have earthquake insurance
Marketwatch reporter Daniel Goldstein (Stevenson, '94, politics) set the scene for his Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary article at Stevenson College with quotes from alumni. The article was re-published by a variety of outlets including Yahoo Finance.