Op-ed

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 scho...

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 s...

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 p...

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 o...

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,” ...

Gabriella Celeste, policy director at the Schubert Center for Child Studies and an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, called for more efforts to engage local youth positively outside the justice system, and to address the alienation and the resort to firearms for self-d...

Stephen Sroka, an adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, opined that pedagogy must adapt to how students learn, discipline must be more compassionate, and building relationships is key. His piece, titled “After 5 decades of teaching, 7 lessons my students...

Benjamin Helton, assistant professor of music education and director of the Spartan Marching Band, shared his proposal for police reform in Ohio—privatization. In his opinion piece, published in April by The Plain Dealer, Helton offered a solution to the “complex and nuanced issues facing policing ...

Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, recently penned two opinion articles published by Forbes. In her article, “The Ongoing Saga of Musk’s Twitter Gamble,” Alon-Beck summarized the events leading up to Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, and...

Satish Nambisan, the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, published an opinion piece on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict’s impact on international trade. In his article titled “Will the Russia-Ukraine conf...