June 2020 in the News

WORLD

AMITAI ETZIONI – National Interest
authored Curbing Police lies and conspiracy theories; A Solution to the Social Media Mayhem

AMITAI ETZIONI – Carnegie Council
authored The Pandemic Extends the Trend away from Globalism

AMITAI ETZIONI – The Diplomat
authored A New Consensus About How to Best Govern-A New Zealand consensus perhaps?

STEPHEN KAPLAN – Marketplace
quoted in This crisis is hard on us. It’s even harder on countries that aren’t rich

DANNY LEIPZIGER – NPR's "Goats and Soda" quoted in World Bank: Recession Is The Deepest In Decades

THOMAS RUSSO – Natural Gas & Electricity Journal authored Hydrogen: Hype or a Glide Path to Decarbonizing Natural Gas – Part 1

GOVERNMENT

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – ABC News Institute featured in Social media platforms are profiting from COVID-19 misinformation: Nancy Pelosi

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – CNBC Institute featured in Pelosi says advertisers should use their ‘tremendous leverage’ to force social media companies to stop spreading false and dangerous information

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – CNN Institute featured in Justice Department wants to upend Silicon Valley's legal shield

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – CSPAN Institute hosted forum on Online Disinformation and COVID-19

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – Fox News Channel Institute featured in Pelosi pours $180K into Facebook ads while calling for advertisers to boycott site

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – The Hill Institute featured in Pelosi calls on advertisers to pressure social media platforms over misinformation

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – The Washington Post Institute featured in The Technology 202: Apple in the antitrust spotlight as coronavirus pandemic boosts mobile payments

INSTITUTE FOR DATA, DEMOCRACY & POLITICS – National Public Radio (WSHU-FM) Institute featured in Lawmakers, Doctors Host COVID-19 Social Media Disinformation Forum

GARY ANDERSON – The Washington Times authored New silent majority against far-left extremism may help reelect Trump

ALEXANDER DOWNES – The Washington Post
contributed in Is Trump hurting the military?

JOHN LOGSDON – Forbes
quoted in What A Trump Loss In November Would Mean For NASA’s Lunar Return

JOHN LOGSDON – The Washington Post
quoted in Trump campaign pulls ad about SpaceX launch after former astronaut calls it political propaganda

JOHN LOGSDON – Space.com
quoted in Trump's 'Make Space Great Again' ad was like nothing we've ever seen

RONALD SPECTOR – Washington Examiner
quoted in Trump echoes Reagan and Nixon in law-and-order tack

JANET STEELE – Le Figaro quoted in Trump ally reshuffles US public media leadership (French)

AFRICA

DAVID SHINN – The Horn Tribune interviewed in “Social Engagements seems harmless, if Somaliland Leader thinks Otherwise, he can Stop it” Prof David Shinn

ASIA

AJAY CHHIBBER – Economic Times
authored View: Dear PM, India needs sahyog more than atmanirbharta

GREGG BRAZINSKY – The Wilson Center authored China in North Korea Wartime Propaganda

IMMANUEL KIM – BBC News Mundo
quoted in North Korea: the best-seller that sheds light on the hermetic society of the Asian country (in Spanish)

YOUNG-KEY KIM-RENAUD – BBC News Mundo
quoted in North Korea: the best-seller that sheds light on the hermetic society of the Asian country (in Spanish)

MARLENE LARUELLE – Institute for War & Peace Reporting
quoted in Central Asia; Could Covid-19 Fuel Autocracy?

SEAN ROBERTS – The Guardian authored China's hidden partner in suppressing the Muslim Uighurs – the US

EUROPE

HENRY FARRELL – The Washington Post authored European Union isn’t likely to blacklist U.S. travelers

MARLENE LARUELLE – Russia Matters authored Russia’s Constitutional Amendments Keep Several Futures Open for Putin

DMITRY STRELETSKIY – Bloomberg
quoted in Huge Spill Stains Arctic and Climate Change Could Be the Cause

DMITRY STRELETSKIY – Winston Salem Journal quoted in Our View: An Arctic View

NORTH AMERICA

BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN – Fox News Channel
quoted in Why US is trying to curtail ICC investigation over 'war crimes' in Afghanistan

STEVEN HAMILTON – The Conversation
authored Economic snap back? Not so fast

HUGH GUSTERSON – Sapiens authored Can Protestors Humanize the Police?

JOHN LOGSDON – Axios
quoted in NASA's 2024 moonshot may not work

YONATAN LUPU and NICOLÁS VELÁSQUEZ– The Washington Post
co-authored Prosecutors claim that a ‘boogaloo’ killed two cops. What’s a boogaloo?

ALLISON MACFARLANE – Washington Examiner
quoted in Trump policy change could be game changer for small nuclear reactors

JAY SHAMBAUGH – Commercial Observier
quoted in Unemployment Rate Falls in May with an Increase of 2.5M Jobs

JAY SHAMBAUGH – Hamilton Project
authored Examining Options to Boost Essential Worker Wages during the Pandemic

TARA SINCLAIR – FiveThirtyEight
quoted in A Good Jobs Report Does Not Mean A Rigged Jobs Report

RONALD SPECTOR – Politico
quoted in Nightly: Coronavirus Special Edition