Op-ed

Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, wrote a piece about a visit by Hester M. Peirce, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner and a 1993 Case Western Reserve University alumna, to Cleveland last month. In the piece, published in Forbes, Alon-Beck recalled Peirce’s discu...

Lihong Shi, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, wrote an op-ed article published in Sixth Tones, a digital news media outlet in China, discussing the recent changes in the long-held tradition of Chinese couples trying for a son. In her article, Shi discussed the history of the...

Juscelino F. Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law, wrote an opinion piece in USA Today discussing the trade negotiations between the United States and foreign entities. In his article, Colares acknowledged President Donald Trump’s successful renegotiating of the agreement f...

Vicki Daniel, SAGES teaching fellow and instructor of history, wrote a review of the documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America for Nursing CLIO. The documentary explores unique ways memorial services can be held according to the wishes of the person who passed away. Daniel’s rev...

Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, associate professor at the School of Medicine, wrote a letter to the editor addressing menthol-flavored tobacco products that target African-Americans. Her piece, titled “Crack down on menthol-flavored tobacco products geared to African-Americans,” was published on clevel...

Avidan Y. Cover, professor of law, and first-year law students Alicia Mallo and Leah Rothfel co-wrote an opinion piece published on cincinnati.com describing why the Supreme Court should not hold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program unlawful. The article, titled "Deporting DACA...

J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times describing what America’s path toward Medicare for All could look like. The piece, titled “This is the most realistic path to Medicare for All,” outlines how priva...

Neil Greenspan, professor of pathology, and Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University co-authored a piece for The Scientist titled “We need more than new antibiotics to fight resistance.” Their commentary provided a rationale for biomedical scientists to explore and develop a variety of therape...

Rabbi Mendy Alevsky, director of the Chabad House at Case Western Reserve University, wrote a piece about Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday held in October. The piece, titled “Dance, feel, repeat – it’s Simchat Torah,” was published in the Cleveland Jewish News. Alevsky wrote about dancing and findi...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, co-wrote an op-ed with Misty Morrison, a printmaker and painter, for Aesthetics for Birds and Cleveland Review of Books. Their piece, titled “Trauma-feeding,” is a critique of the exploitation of trauma in contemporary art. Read the ...