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The Washington Post (subscription required; audio option): Poll: Virginia voters narrowly support redistricting to favor Democrats (A Washington Post-Schar School poll cited, with Mark J. Rozell quoted). Also in DNYUZ (New York, NY).
World Politics Review: Jack Goldstone writes that Iran’s “rope-a-dope” strategy has given it the upper hand.
Nature Human Behavior: Premature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA (Coauthored research by Schar’s Sungbin Park and John S. Earle, distinguished professor, and alum Kyung Min Lee, PhD in Public Policy ’19, cited).
Right Now: The New Republic (video): Justin Gest tells host Perry Bacon that Democrats need more than economic policy issues to defeat Republican opponents.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: Louise Shelley tells the international media outlet that post-Soviet FSB operative Yury Pozhidaev “fits a profile.”
The Arena with Kasie Hunt (CNN podcast): Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi (Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director and acting director, discusses topic). McCabe starts at the 5:05 mark. Similar in Gateway Pundit.
Homeland Security Today: The global spread of Salafi-Jihadism and its enduring security threat (Op-ed by Mahmut Cengiz).
Cardinal News: David Ramadan’s life story, from growing up in Lebanon to teaching at the Schar School, is told.
Government Technology: New national AI framework: What state and local leaders need to know (Op-ed by Alan R. Shark).
State News (Michigan): Judith Wilde says it’s unusual for university trustees to get travel and ticket perks in a story about Michigan State University.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch (subscription may be required; audio option): Va. court ruling, budget fight put data centers on defensive (Terry L. Clower, director of the Center for Regional Analysis quoted).
Archyde: Florencio Franco resigns: Hacienda official & teacher protest scandal (Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, co-director of CONTRA, quoted).
Virginia Business Magazine (subscription may be required): Amazon’s HQ2 hiring stalled in 2025 (Terry L. Clower quoted).
Homeland Security Today: Webinar April 9: Evolving tactics of terror: From proxy networks to lone-actor violence in the Iran Conflict era (Mahmut Cengiz mentioned).
Archyde: Beware: You’re on a fake tiempo.com mx site! (Op-ed in which Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera quoted).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT): Is the Mike Pence and Jeff Flake – aka Butch and Sundance – duo back? (Mike Pence, former U.S. vice president, and the Schar School mentioned).
Homeland Security Today (video): Frontline Watch: Iran proxy networks and The Lone Wolf threat (Coauthored op-ed by Mahmut Cengiz, graduate student Sean Dilallo, alumna Suha Hassen, Carter School, and Kutluer Karademir, Schar School).
Small Wars Journal: Organized crime and governance in Latin America (video) (Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera mentioned).
BVM Sports (George Mason Athletics’ newsdesk pickup): Forever bonded: The Bestick Twins (George Mason women’s lacrosse players and students Kaitlyn Bestick, political science major, and Regan Bestick, biology major, profiled).
Right Now with Perry Bacon (The New Republic podcast): How Democrats can defeat Trump’s identity politics (Justin Gest interviewed).
Archyde: Mexico rejects Trump’s “Gulf of America” name change/Sheinbaum on U.S. relations (Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera quoted).
Bytes EU (State News pickup): Free travel, occasional seats to MSU sports a perk for unpaid trustees (Judith Wilde quoted).
ZDF Heute (translation may be required; Germany): Trump’s address to the nation: Three observations (Jack A. Goldstone quoted).
Iran International: Iran’s reported gas halt to Turkey exposes limits of its energy power (Op-ed by Umud Shokri).
Irish Star: Nancy Guthrie case investigators spot telling detail in surveillance video (Comments to CNN by Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director and acting director, quoted). Also in The Mirror US and The Daily Express US.
WyoFile: From microschools to basements to boats, Wyomingites embrace school choice with or without state money (A 2023 Washington Post-Schar School poll cited).
The Economic Times (India): U.S., Israel stare at a core goal slipping away in Iran (Comments to The Times of Israel by Jack A. Goldstone cited).
GW Hatchet: James Finkelstein comments on George Washington University’s “corporate-ization” of the board of trustees.
Academia
World Economic Forum: PhD in Political Science student Ali Mammadov cowrites a study of the emergence of stablecoin as a geopolitical issue.