As Notre Dame political science professor David Campbell, who was raised Mormon, told me, “There’s an allergic reaction among many Americans — particularly those who lean to the left politically — when religion and politics mix. We see it among Catholics. We see it among evangelicals. And we’re seeing it among Mormons.”
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OSV News
Writers’ Strike Over As Union Secures Landmark Deal With AI-Related Labor Protections
September 28, 2023
“It’s just the foundational idea that workers must be foregrounded in businesses’ estimation of thinking about their use of labor,” Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, told OSV News. “Workers’ interests and workers’ inherent dignity is something that needs to be considered — and at the same time, the commitment to workers having a voice in the process.”
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Preparing Math Teachers: What’s in the Coursework?
September 27, 2023
It’s a figure that troubled Nicole McNeil, a professor cognitive psychology who studies math learning at the University of Notre Dame.
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WNDU
How a government shutdown would impact Michiana
September 26, 2023
16 News Now spoke with economist Jeff Campbell from the University of Notre Dame who says, in dollar terms, there is a big difference between previous shutdowns and the upcoming one.
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The Washington Post
Here’s how to actually make friends post-college
September 20, 2023
Darcia Narvaez understands this well. She’s a developmental psychologist who explores how culture and childhood experiences contribute to human flourishing.
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Financial Times
Economists expect Fed to defy investors with more interest rate rises
September 17, 2023
Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, is among those to worry about energy prices after the decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut supply. She expects prices to rise further, potentially bidding up expectations of future inflation as well as delaying the descent in core price growth if companies opt to pass on higher costs to consumers.
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Germany has reason to be concerned. "Catastrophe is not unthinkable"
September 07, 2023
Such considerations drown out voices suggesting that extending support for carmakers could be counterproductive in the long run, writes The Economist. He evokes the views of Ruediger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame, who believes that German politicians should rely more on market forces to fill the economic space that may open up as the German automotive industry weakens.
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Adieu to a post-colonial bully?
September 05, 2023
French officials controlled every aspect of the administration and affairs of their colonies, and declared everything and everyone in these colonies to be French: “But more as in French property. In other words, as subjects of France rather than citizens. The idea behind the insistence of the rightness and dominance of French language and French culture was for Africans to aspire to be French, but of course they could never really be French because they were black and not actually from France,” Prof. Catherine E. Bolten of the University of Notre Dame, told African Arguments.
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The Guardian
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
September 05, 2023
“Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil.
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OSV News
Americans Are Talking About Labor Issues, Unions More Now Than In Recent Past, Experts Say
September 04, 2023
“I definitely think this Labor Day, there’s more of a focus by the nation on the state of labor,” said Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. “Coming out of the pandemic — and with the rise of labor organizing we’ve seen the last couple of years — it’s clear that Americans are talking about labor questions more than in the recent past.”
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The Hill
Opinion | Solving homelessness requires more evidence and less politics
August 29, 2023
Bill Evans is the University of Notre Dame Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics and co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). David Phillips is a research professor of economics at LEO. Jim Sullivan is a professor of economics and LEO co-founder.
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The New Yorker
The Disciplining Power of Disappointment: In a new book, Sara Marcus argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.
August 11, 2023
If optimism is the disposition of the victor, then what is the outlook of the victim or survivor of conquest and domination? For Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, it is disappointment.
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The Washington Post
Reggaeton often has misogynistic lyrics. A Mexican city is issuing fines.
August 04, 2023
Jason Ruiz, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, drew parallels between the trajectory of reggaeton with that of hip-hop and rap, genres that were also decried as violent in their early stages but that have seen a transformation following the rise of female and queer artists within them.
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Wired
The Kakhovka Dam Collapse Is an Ecological Disaster
August 04, 2023
The country is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of wheat — meaning there will be serious knock-on effects for countries that rely on imports. Farmers in the area also produce cherries, plums, apples, tomatoes, eggplants, and other crops, says Susanne Wengle, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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America
Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment puts the U.S. in ‘uncharted territory,’ Catholic scholars say
August 02, 2023
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News that “as indictments and court cases against former President Trump increase, he becomes stronger with his supporters.”
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Economist
What if Germany stopped making cars? Imagine Volkswagen goes the way of Nokia
July 31, 2023
Rüdiger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame and others calculated that because the company was found fiddling with emissions readings, sales of other German brands in America fell by 166,000 cars, costing them $7.7bn in forgone revenues, or nearly a quarter of their total in 2014.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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South China Morning Post
US expected to get around China’s export controls on gallium, an essential component for American military radar tech
July 17, 2023
Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in the US, said Beijing was in part aiming to disrupt the defence supply chain by countering the semiconductor export control, considering Washington’s “fear of vulnerability” as an opportunity to increase its leverage against the US.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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What Gave Rise to the Breadwinner? | What's Next?
July 17, 2023
Episodes 2&5: Associate Professor Lee T. Gettler, University of Notre Dame, is the Director of the Hormones, Health and Human Behavior Laboratory at Notre Dame and a faculty affiliate of the Eck Institute for Global Health.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Yahoo
Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years
July 07, 2023
Susanne Wengle, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and Vitalii Dankevych, Doctor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Public Administration and National Security, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr National Agroecological University.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Yahoo
Wife Calls Her Husband The 'Biggest Disappointment' In Her Life After He Can't Put Their Kids To Bed
July 03, 2023
According to James McKenna, Ph.D., an anthropologist specializing in infancy and development and director of the mother/baby behavioral sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, the location in which you sleep is less important when it comes to a baby's development.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Washington Post