Health reform: Conservatives, liberals both need to give ground, says Jack Meyer
Baltimore Sun
Can Obama Order Federal Furloughs? Don Kettl says, no.
Washington Post
This is a game changer, said Don Kettl on the Obama Administration's stimulus reports
Washington Post
Catherine Kelleher | Recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Award
Nolte | Federal Jobs are Brass Ring for Newly Minted Grads (The Baltimore Sun)
How to put more security in Social Security
Kenneth Apfel says the Social Security problem may be a manageable one.
Federal News Radio
Donald Kettl Q&A on Financial Reforms
Federal Times
Kenneth Apfel testified on securing adequate Social Security benefits
June 17
2009 Honorary Degree Recipients: The Official List
Nobel economist Thomas Schelling receives a Doctor of Social Science degree from Yale.
Yale Daily News
A Bay Full of Broken Promises
Gerald Winegrad criticizes policy makers who have not pursued healing the waters of Maryland's geographic and emotional heart, the Chesapeake Bay. (Washington Post)
College Park Professor Ivo H. Daalder Confirmed as US Ambassador to NATO
Donald Kettl Named Dean, School of Public Policy
Former Dean Steve Fetter Joins Obama Administration
MSPP FACULTY OFF TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Georgia Sorenson Among Daily Record's Maryland's Top 100 Women
PIPA: Public 'Backs Economic Reforms'
Susan Schwab returns to School of Public Policy following cabinet-level
position in Bush Administration.
Baltimore Sun
Reinhart: Stimulating Our Way into a Crisis
Jacques Gansler writes op/ed on what Obama and the near 21st
Century can expect from terror threats.
Baltimore Sun
Mac Destler evaluates Obama's prodigious transition
that includes a new kind of West Wing.
Washington Post
The conclusions of Ivo Daalder and Mac Destler's new book, In the Shadow of the Oval Office, are summarized in their Jan-Feb 2009 article in Foreign Affairs.
Advice to the New Administration: University of Maryland Foreign and Domestic Policy Guide
From the Great Society to a Continuous Improvement Government
Douglas J. Besharov
APPAM Presidential Address
Economists cannot keep pretending that Earth's resources are infinite, says ecological economist Herman Daly.
New Scientist
Taming the Beast; How Far Should Finance Be Re-Regulated?
Economist Carmen Reinhart gauges our mercurial financial situation. (The Economist, New York Times)
Capital Flow Bonanzas by Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart
The Economist
Severe Climate Change Costs Forecast for Pa., N.C., Tenn., N.D.
PIPA: No Consensus on Who Was Behind Sept 11-Global Poll
All 22 Countries in UMD/BBC Poll Prefer Obama
Climate Change Will Cost Maryland $Billions
Marylanders in Obama's Orbit
Jacques Gansler is part of Barack Obama's pre-election orbit. Baltimore Sun
Killers in the Lab
Elisa Harris ponders what biodefense research has wrought. New York Times
CIER: Costs Of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report
Science Daily
Steven Kull: Extension of U.N. Mandate for Iraq CQ Congressional Testimony
Just Published
"First Global Crisis of the 21st Century"
Edited by Andrew Felton and Carmen Reinhart
MSPP Incoming Student Honored with Pickering Fellowship
Carmen Reinhart says, "Watch Out for Sovereign Debt Risk"
Wall Street Journal
Peter Reuter Before Congress: 'Congress has not pressed any Administration to justify its policy choices... The Nation
Testimony Transcript This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises
March 2008
Carmen Reinhart Testifies before the House Financial Services Committee
Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling Urges Bush Administration to Change Tack in Dealing with Iran (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff continue to dominate the news with their study, "Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis so Different? An International historical Comparison"
Google News, Feb 08
Philip Cook Named Schelling Visiting Professor for 2008-09
Maryland School of Public Policy ranked 8th in the Nation!
Chronicle of Higher Education
Douglas Besharov writes on The Right Kind of Hand Up
Washington Post
One of the downsides of reorganizing FEMA and incorporating it into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security becomes quite apparent when a major natural disaster strikes such as the wildfires burning in Los Angeles, says University of Maryland international security expert, I. Mac Destler.
CIER Releases New Report on the US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction
Mac Destler Speaks of Jimmy Carter, 'Peace President' (Baltimore Sun) Former MSPP Dean Susan Schwab is praised by Fortune Magazine for protecting the nation from protectionism, while crusading for globalization.
Ambassador Susan Schwab to speak on "The Globalization of Public Policy Teaching"
Douglas J. Besharov says the falling Hispanic poverty rate testifies to the ability of Hispanic immigrants to take advantage of the opportunities that they have found in this country.
New York Times
Government & Politics' Ron Walters Comments on Obama at CBC Event, GOP Presidential Debate in Baltimore (Bloomberg News, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Robert Nelson Examines Philippine Culture and Economic 'Malaise' (Agence France-Presse)
Trade Scholar Destler Says TPA Renewal Is Dead Until 2009 Without Doha Miracle
Smart Growth's Reid Ewing and Report on Sprawl and Climate Change, 'Growing Cooler,' Gets Wide Notice (Baltimore Sun, Tallahassee Democrat, United Press International, Sacramento Business Journal, Smart Growth Online)
Pioneer in Natural Economics Roy F. Weston Dies at 96
Douglas Besharov discusses
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg' s anti-poverty proposals on NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
Academy of Leadership Receives Major Grant to Develop "Transformational Leadership"
President Bush Appoints Andrew R. Smarick (MPM '01) a White House Fellow
U.S. Climate Policy Blueprint
John Holdren says U.S. near a political tipping point on climate change policy
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Professor John Steinbruner Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
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