As the traditional media continues to cut back on reporting, other sources, such as blogs and small local newspapers need support to keep the public informed.

Four Duke professors gathered at the Sanford School of Public Policy Tuesday to discuss the implications of the latest round of WikiLeaks amid the breaking news of the arrest of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault. The panel attracted a crowd of students, faculty and community members that filled a classroom and an adjacent overflow room.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, “religion has replaced ideology” in international affairs, Georgetown University scholar Shireen Hunter said in a Dec. 1 talk at the Sanford School. Hunter said she finds more peril than promise in the use of Islam as an instrument of foreign policy.

Sanford professor Jonathan Wiener, alongside Duke economist Martin D. Smith, Frank Asche of the University of Stavanger, Norway, and Atle G. Guttormsen of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, discusses the limitations of the FDA review process that assesses the safety of genetically modified Atlantic salmon.

New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke about political gridlock and possibilities for change in the Fleishman Commons.

Retire Marine Eric Alva, the first American soldier wounded in Iraq and advocate for the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy will speak at the Sanford School.

Sanford Dean Bruce Kuniholm has led the public policy program during two key transitions.

Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward will give a talk at the Sanford School of Public Policy Oct. 27 at about his latest book, “Obama’s Wars,” which presents the Obama White House as deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan.

MPP student Rob Peterson interns with the Department of Defense Stability Operations Office after receiving the prestigious Rosenthal Fellowship.

Assistant Professor Marc Bellemare calls the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for reducing poverty unrealistic. Focus on things proven to work, he says.

TimeFlow, a free software developed by Sanford professor Sarah Cohen, helps journalists organize large quantities of notes.

New exhibit explores the definitions of marriage through the photographs of 30 couples taken just before or after their brief, non-denominational civil ceremonies in government offices.

Associate Professor David Schanzer points out how the furor over the proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan can hurt antiterrorism efforts.

A new study by scholars at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy scholars shows that  efforts to close the “digital divide” by guaranteeing universal access to home computers would actually widen the achievement gap.

Five myths about gun control, including the idea that more households with guns make the crime rate go down, are debunked by Sanford Professor Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig, professor at the University of Chicago.

Sanford School Dean Bruce Kuniholm joins the deans of eight other U.S. schools of public policy in supporting repeal.

Washington Analysis Corp. has been hiring Sanford interns for thirty years.

The conventional wisdom is that young people don’t vote. Heather Smith PPS ’98 didn’t believe that. Though her work as Executive Director of Rock the Vote, she proved that opinion to be wrong at the 2008 Iowa Caucus. The youth vote increased 700 percent over the 2004 caucus and gave the victory that night to Barack Obama.

Donald Taylor discusses the core issues needing to be addressed in the health care reform bill.

Biologic medicines shouldn't have extended patents.

Donald Taylor discusses the core issues needing to be addressed in the health care reform bill.

Health care reform has been a leading issue in the news for the past year, with many twists and turns in the legislative process. Megan Stacy, a second year student in the Master of Public Policy program, experienced some of the process first-hand during her internship last summer in the office of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, as the HELP committee bill was drafted.

The health care reform can still be passed into law through a procedure that avoids the possibility of a filibuster.

Associate Professor of Public Policy David H. Schanzer discusses actions being taken in Muslim American communities to prevent radicalization among its members and how law officials should support those efforts.

Associate Professor of Public Policy David H. Schanzer co-authors a report that addresses actions being taken in Muslim American communities to reduce the relatively small threat of “homegrown” terrorism.