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Law’s Jessie Hill discussed the changing tactics of abortion-rights activists
How abortion-rights advocates won in Mississippi The Washington Post: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, said abortion-rights activists at the state level are staffing up and are more open to different approaches than they were a decade ago, but “it’s starting way too late.”
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Law’s Lewis Katz discussed the consent decree between Cleveland and the Justice Department 
Small Cleveland police agencies in compliance with consent decree, but lack civilian oversight, according to commission analysis cleveland.com: Lewis Katz, the John C. Hutchins Professor Emeritus of Law, discussed the consent decree between the city of Cleveland and the U.S. Justice Department,…
Student Q&A with Alexander Lippiatt
Alexander Lippiatt Major: Finance Q: What are you up to this summer? I’m working an internship with Dentsu International in Los Angeles, California.  Q: What do you do in this position? I am on Dentsu’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team. I work on live deals consisting of companies that Dentsu…
Highland Park shooting: Suspect considered second attack
BBC News:  Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed how “red flag” laws can be an effective way of preventing would-be mass shooters from large-scale attacks. “These are people who were either troubled, emotionally dysregulated or…
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Music’s Benjamin Helton expresses concerns about school choice programs in Ohio
Benjamin Helton, assistant professor in the Department of Music at the College of Arts and Sciences, weighed in on the recent Carson v. Makin decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that makes private religious schools eligible to receive public money. Helton’s piece, titled “Statewide expansion of…
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Medicine’s Robert Salata shares COVID-19 updates 
In mid-June, Robert Salata, professor at the School of Medicine, shared updates on the COVID-19 pandemic in an op-ed published by cleveland.com. Titled “Three things to know about COVID-19 at this time,” Salata’s piece broke down the current dominant subvariants, vaccination as a tool to curb the…
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Medicine’s Peter Pronovost co-writes piece about cuts to Medicare payments
Peter Pronovost, clinical professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at the School of Medicine, shared his opinion on Congress’ plan to cut Medicare payments. Pronovost co-wrote the piece titled “Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments,” which was…
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Medicine’s Michael Lederman pens op-ed piece on COVID-19 vaccines
Michael Lederman, the Scott R Inkley Professor of Medicine, wrote an opinion piece about why he believes the COVID-19 immunization is important to protect against serious disease and hospitalization and death, but that it’s not likely that an immunization strategy in the United States will get us…
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Medicine’s Susan Hatters-Friedman weighs in on forensic psychiatrists in Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial
Susan Hatters-Friedman, associate professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, shared her opinions on the role forensic psychiatrists played in the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial. She wrote the article, titled “In Depp v. Heard, forensic psychiatry took the stand. Let’s correct the record,”…
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Begun Center’s Daniel Flannery writes about Ohio’s juvenile justice system
Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-wrote an op-ed regarding policies he said have failed and undermined Ohio’s juvenile justice system, making communities less safe. Titled “Mandatory bindover - unfairly turning children into adults,”…