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Election 2016
Who founded ISIS? It's complicated
Published Aug 12, 2016
SAIS Dean Vali Nasr links rise of Islamic terror group to sectarian conflict in Iraq, 2003 U.S. invasion / The Huffington Post
Election 2016
How secure are our votes?
Published Aug 9, 2016
Computer security experts discuss vulnerability of voting machines, rolls in wake of recent DNC hack
Get up and go
Pandemic or prescription?
Published Aug 4, 2016
A public health perspective on the Pokémon Go gaming craze, which has tens of millions talking—and walking / Global Health NOW
Commentary
Conservation complication
Published Aug 2, 2016 Video
Efforts to reduce water use in agriculture could end up having the opposite effect, JHU expert writes / Bloomberg View
National security
To brief, or not to brief
Published Aug 2, 2016
Former acting CIA director, SAIS faculty member discusses importance of briefing presidential candidates / NPR
Commentary
Assessing the ISIS threat
Published July 29, 2016
John McLaughlin, former acting CIA director, cautions that end of terror group's reign is not near / The Cipher Brief
Economics
An avoidable collapse?
Published July 22, 2016
Economist Laurence Ball's research suggests Fed could have prevented 2008 Lehman Brothers failure / The New York Times
Aspen Ideas Festival
Daniels: Regulation, politics 'hobbling' U.S. public universities
Published July 12, 2016 Video
President also discusses declines in research funding, Baltimore's trajectory during 55-minute talk
Q+A
Improving on 'near perfection'
Published July 7, 2016 Video
Johns Hopkins Hospital President Redonda Miller on ambition, her time at Hopkins, and her vision for the hospital
Commentary
Foreign policy experts weigh in on Brexit vote
Published June 24, 2016
Political upheaval of this scale has not occurred since the end of World War II, one expert says