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Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Will COVID-19 claim privacy among its victims?

The proliferation of advanced technology has created many obvious benefits. But it has also raised new questions about privacy, data collection and data monitoring. Debating the trade-offs has inspired books, documentaries, movies, podcasts and TV shows, and it has made its way into political scandals and congressional hearings. As the world faces an unprecedented pandemic, how will technology help us...

Thursday, April 30, 2020

McCain Institute expert has eyes on North Korea, not for the first time

Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for several weeks, leading to widespread speculation that he is either in hiding due to COVID-19, recuperating from heart surgery, incapacitated in some way or possibly dead. Rumors of the North Korean leader’s demise began when a Seoul-based website reported that he was recovering from an April 12 heart surgery. North...

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

ASU’s CSPO named one of world’s top 10 think tanks for science and tech policy for 6th straight year

Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), a research unit of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society, has for a sixth consecutive year been named one of the top 10 think tanks for science and technology policy in the University of Pennsylvania’s 2019 “Global Go-To Think Tank Index.” The Think Tanks and Civil Societies...

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Experts explore potential of universal basic income

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused policymakers us to rethink approaches to a range of issues, such as healthcare, welfare and education. Now that millions of Americans are receiving direct cash transfers as part of recently passed coronavirus stimulus packages, the potential of a universal basic income (UBI) — in which the government would provide every American with a minimum income...

Friday, April 24, 2020

Deep states of confusion

President Donald Trump has masterfully used the rhetoric of the "deep state" to divide Congress and the public and to deflect attention away from himself, according to David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and current ASU Future Security Fellow at New America . “I have concluded there is not a ‘deep state’ as Donald Trump defines it, or...

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Seeing the 'wonder of nature' despite the impact of COVID-19

For the first time in decades, Indians were able to see the Himalayan mountain range through the skies from their homes. Last week, Los Angeles had some of the cleanest air in the world. These are only two examples of how the global pandemic is affecting our environment — and how we think about climate change. The connection between the...

Thursday, April 16, 2020

ASU names new McCain Institute executive director

The Arizona State University character-driven leadership program based in Washington, D.C., has found a new chieftain. Mark Green. Photo courtesy of U.S. Agency for International Development. ASU President Michael M. Crow and board chair Cindy McCain announced Thursday that Ambassador Mark Green will serve as the new executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at ASU’s Barrett and...

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

From ASU Dean's Medalist to Harvard Law School

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2020 graduates . In May, Mackenzie Saunders, an Ahwatukee native, will graduate summa cum laude with Bachelor of Science degrees in justice studies and politics and the economy and a certificate in socio-legal studies . A graduate of nearby Desert Vista High School in Ahwatukee Foothills,...

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Saving the press during a pandemic

In a society where both trust in and engagement with the media are at historic lows, newsrooms across the country face a new and possibly critical threat — COVID-19. As local news organizations worry about closing their doors permanently due to the effects of a global pandemic, who will provide communities with relevant updates at a time when the public...

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