In The Media - Archive 2006

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TPM Café, Dec. 20: Public Policy Professor Bruce Jentleson analyzes the potential weaknesses in President Bush’s latest strategy for resolving terrorism issues and the conflict in Iraq.

WUNC-FM “The State of Things”, Dec. 19: Noah Pickus, associate professor of public policy studies at Duke, joins a conversation today on North Carolina Public Radio’s “The State of Things” about the role and expectations of police officers in matters of federal immigration violations.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Dec. 7: Joel Fleishman, professor of public policy and law, is on a mission to save foundations from themselves. Calling them "the least accountable major institutions in America," Fleishman argues in a new book that although foundations play a vital role in the country's civic life, they must act quickly to mend their arrogant and secretive ways or risk increased public skepticism and government regulation.

MSNBC/Associated Press, Nov. 2: Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That's the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans. Some scientists, however, are not ready to embrace the theory. “The very idea that something like a political ideology could be heritable is incoherent,” said Evan Charney, assistant professor of public policy and political science at Duke. Read Charney’s research report “Genes and Ideologies.”

The New York Times, Oct. 26: Bruce W. Jentleson, professor of public policy, comments on midterm elections. He points out that President Bush is taking a gamble in assuming a candid approach can rescue GOP candidates who are struggling to defend the war.

WUNC Public Radio, Oct 19: Fritz Mayer, associate professor of public policy and political science at Duke, discusses NAFTA labor complaints on “The State of Things.” 
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Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 10: Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke’s Kenan Institute of Ethics and public policy professor, spoke at the University of Central Florida on one of the most divisive political questions of the day: Should the U.S.open its borders or shut its doors to many immigrants?

TPM Cafe’s America Abroad blog, Oct. 4: Duke public policy professor Bruce Jentleson comments on news that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush on Iraq.

The (London) Times, Sept. 22: Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy and a former official in the Clinton Administration, comments on Democratic Party strategy in light of November’s midterm elections.

Marketplace, Sept. 14: Health Policy Professor Chris Conover says we need to rethink health insurance coverage and give people the same kind of tax breaks to buy their own insurance that we now provide to people with employer plans.

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