In the Media - Archive 2006

Fall 2006

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.

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 20: Ann Brewster, a research associate at the Center for Child and Family Policy, takes a closer look at a recommendation to try 16- and 17-year-olds in juvenile courts.

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.
ALSO: December 11, at noon Eastern time
LIVE DISCUSSION: Talk online with Joel Fleishman, who will answer questions about his new book The Foundation: A Great American Secret -- How Private Wealth Is Changing the World.

NPR’s Justice Talking, Dec. 4: Chris Schroeder, professor of law and public policy, debates the appropriate role of presidential signing statements, in which presidents add their views on legislation they dislike but won’t veto.

CNBC’s Closing Bell, Nov. 28: Public Policy Professor Bruce Jentleson explains that media outlets’ use of “Civil War” phrasing may indicate a shift in U.S. public opinion on Iraq. (Video not available online; DVD mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)

Studio 360, Nov. 24: Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies, discusses the meaning of the folk hero story of John Henry to black men, who experience life-threatening health problems tied to the stress of striving to succeed in white-dominated society. On the radio program "American Icons" produced by Public Radio International and WNYC.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 21: Professor of Public Policy Charles T. Clotfelter joins a panel of College Board-appointed researchers and experts to point the way to restructuring federal student-aid programs.

Scientific American, Reuters, Nov. 8: Christina M. Gibson-Davis, assistant professor of PPS, discusses why preschoolers who were breast-fed show stronger verbal abilities than their bottle-fed peers – though the advantage may have more to do with their parents than with breast milk.

Philadelphia Daily News, Nov. 3: Evan Charney, assistant professor of public policy and political science at Duke, responds to the idea that political ideology could be related to genetic traits.

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Nov. 2: With the help of Hart Leadership Program Director Alma Blount, the idea to build a new kind of service academy – co-launched by a Duke alumnus and backed by three Duke scholars – has progressed rapidly.

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.”

Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 31:  Columnist Gail Shister discusses how Duke alumna and former trustee Judy Woodruff, now a visiting professor in public policy at Duke, came to anchor election night on Bloomberg Television.

American Public Media: Oct. 30: Health policy professor Frank Sloan discusses Florida’s new prescription drug database, "MyFloridaRX" on "Marketplace Money."

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.

Newsweek, Oct. 23: In an analysis of North Korean nuclear proliferation, Fareed Zakaria cites Public Policy Professor Bruce Jentleson’s studies on how U.S. policy successfully quelled Libyan nuclear aspirations in the past.

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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(Raleigh) News & Observer, Oct. 15: Noah Pickus, professor of public
policy at Duke and an expert on immigration, talks about the benefits and
challenges of population growth.

WBUR-FM, Boston, Oct. 11: Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy at the Terry Sanford Institute and a Mideast adviser during the Clinton administration, was a guest on "On
Point. He discussed the Bush administration's foreign policy and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's role.

Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 11: The absence of any real gun-control movement, or scholarship thereon, is puzzling in light of the nation’s history of gun-related trauma, writes Kristin A. Goss, assistant professor of public policy and political science. (Available online to subscribers).

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?

WRAL-TV (Raleigh), Oct. 9: The United Nations needs to take the lead in the global response to North Korea’s first nuclear test, says Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy and political science. (Clip requires RealMedia).

Newark Star-Ledger, Oct. 5: Whenever a school shooting occurs, as in the Pennsylvania Amish country this week, we understandably seek answers, but “to the wrong question,” says Kristin A. Goss, assistant professor of public policy studies and political science. (Also in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raleigh News & Observer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Des Moines Register, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson. Miss.) (Op-Ed).

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.

 (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 21: Rotary World Peace Fellows at Duke and UNC don’t have a secret formula for peace, but they are providing some new paths to supplement older ones that are no longer sufficient.  (Op-Ed).

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.

CBS News, Sept. 1: Sanford public policy professor and veteran journalist Susan Tifft lays out a few suggestions for the “Evening News with Katie Couric.”

Summer 2006

TPM Café's American Abroad blog, Aug. 18: "The UN has its best opportunity in many years to demonstrate the crucial role it can play in international peace and security," writes Bruce Jentleson, Duke professor of public policy at the Terry Sanford Institute.

International Herald Tribune, Aug. 15: Duke Public Policy Professor Anirudh Krishna's research on three Indian software companies is cited in a discussion of the "Bangalore bug" and rising software wages.

(Durham) Herald-Sun, Aug. 11: David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of the practice at Sanford and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and UNC, discusses terrorists' "continuing fascination" with aviation.

TPM Café's American Abroad blog, Aug. 9: Public Policy professor Bruce Jentleson takes issue with the spin some are putting on Sen. Joe Lieberman's primary defeat.

(Durham) Herald-Sun, Aug. 9: David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of the practice at Sanford and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and UNC, discusses the possible impact of film director Oliver Stone's account of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.

The New York Times, Aug. 6:“ 'Civil war' is sort of a proxy term for wars we cannot win,” says Christopher F. Gelpi, a professor of political science at Duke who has worked on gauging opinions on Iraq with Peter D. Feaver, a Duke professor of political science and public policy now on leave as a White House adviser.

Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 1: Public Policy professor Bruce Jentleson ,a former State Department planning staff member, says two "crucial elements" stand out that will determine success for an international agreement to end Middle East hostilities.

Detroit News, July 31: David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of the practice at Sanford and a border security expert at Duke, says scrutiny of the northern border has gotten less emphasis recently.

TPM Cafe's America Abroad blog, July 27: Bruce Jentleson, professor of PPS, says that the New York Times polls show that Americans are "disillusioned, not isolationist."

(Raleigh) News and Observer, July 23: Bruce R. Kuniholm, director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke and an expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, talks about Israel and its bombing of Lebanon.

TPM Cafe's America Abroad blog and (Raleigh) News and Observer, July 16: In the current Mideast crisis, “the need for a concerted American-led crisis management role is as great or even greater than in the past,” says Sanford Institute professor Bruce Jentleson.

(Durham) Herald-Sun, July 12: Professor of Public Policy Sherman James has long pursued an enduring mystery of why heart disease and hypertension are higher among blacks. Now, as president-elect of the world's largest society for the study of diseases in human populations, he is poised to help set priorities for global health issues.

(Durham) Herald-Sun, July 11: Latino immigrants bring negative attitudes toward blacks with them from their home countries rather than develop them after they arrive here, a team led by Political Science and Public Policy Professor Paula McClain says.

New York Post, July 9: Adjunct Professor of PPS and Associate Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics Noah Pickus, suggests how to avoid past mistakes on immigration policy.

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(Boston) Phoenix News, July 7: A look at the prospects for violent summer crime draws on research co-authored by Professor of Public Policy Philip Cook, showing that while the crime rate is stable or declining, shootings are rapidly on the rise.

Washington Post, July 1: Every day, African-American men consciously work to offset stereotypes about them. Professor of PPS Sherman James studies how the stress of coping for black men can damage the circulatory system and lead to chronic poor health.

(Newark) Star-Ledger, June 28: Adjunct Professor of PPS David H. Schanzer talks about how counter terrorism analysts could screen private data without alarming the public by following a few guidelines.

TPM Cafe's America Abroad blog, June 21: Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson says buying into invocations of sovereignty by Sudan, North Korea and Iran “poses its own dangers to international peace, security and justice.”

Open Democracy, June 14: Professor of PPS Susan Tifft talks with journalists on a PEN World Voices panel about how the Internet has changed journalism.

TPM Cafe's America Abroad blog, June 4: Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson says, “for all those around the world that we've encouraged to turn to the United States as a model of democracy, President Bush has served up yet another gambit of democracy more as manipulation than deliberation.”

Contra Costa Times, June 4: PPS Professors Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor report on a study that suggests that Latino's school performance is progressive, not stagnant.

(Raleigh) News & Observer, June 4: Adjunct Professor of PPS Noah Pickus talks about immigration and civic nationalism.

Spring 2006

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 25: Professor of PPS Philip J. Cook says personalized handguns could dramatically reduce the number of gun deaths.

WUNC-91.5 FM, May 24: William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr., research professor of PPS at Duke and director of the Institute of African American Research at UNC-Chapel Hill joined a discussion on “The State of Things” about how public schools should go about identifying and educating gifted students.

TPM Cafe's America Abroad blog, May 23: The public’s ambivalences on both Iran and Darfur come through in a recent Pew Research Center poll, says Sanford Institute professor Bruce Jentleson.

Santa Barbara News-Press, May 20: The current furor over illegal immigration has clouded the real issue at hand -- the social compact aspect of citizenship, says Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics and adjunct professor of PPS.

Christian Science-Monitor, May 17: Restoration of U.S. diplomatic ties to Libya demonstrates the power of diplomacy, says Professor of PPS Bruce Jentleson.

The Charlotte Observer, March 18: Professor Philip Cook discussed financial problems that some households will face with the start of North Carolina’s lottery.

(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 9: Duke students and community researchers talked to disadvantaged families and found that a lack of health insurance and medical debt are key factors in rising levels of rural poverty. Duke News link

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 10: Duke visiting professor Bernard Avishai says the "breath of fresh air" in Israeli politics is acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recruiting of international support before stating conditions for dealing with Hamas.  Duke News link

(Chapel Hill) WCHL 1360’s Carolina Journal Radio, Feb. 5: David Schanzer, who directs the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, talked about the domestic surveillance issue.  The segment can be heard as a free downloadable podcast through iTunes. 

WRAL-TV, Jan. 12: A profile of Professor of the Practice James Joseph, president of the Louisiana Disaster Relief Foundation.

The Washington Observer,(Chinese) Jan. 10: professor Bruce Jentleson talked with this Chinese e-magazine about the impact of Ariel Sharon’s illness on Israeli politics.

(Seattle) KOMO 1000 News, Jan. 5: Duke professor Kenneth Rogerson, research director for the Institute’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, who studies the relationship between technology and news, discussed how journalists can keep events like the West Virginia mine disaster communications mix-up from happening again. (Audio not available online.)

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