April 4, 2008
The U.S.-Mexico border wall, growing in fits and starts, is both championed and attacked in Congress. We asked professors in several disciplines: What does the wall represent? Their answers: A false security blanket, a waste of money, but also a rallying point that inspires acts of protest and border culture.
March 28, 2008
If God told President Bush to invade Iraq, what would he tell President McCain or Obama to do? USC’s Lyn Boyd-Judson explores the relationship between the kind of faith in the Oval Office, and American policy abroad.
March 28, 2008
Candidates for public office focus heavily on physical threats to the U.S., say USC computer security experts, while digital security — both physical and electronic — is barely mentioned.
February 8, 2008
Psychologist Jerald Jellison of the USC College explores the popularity of “change” and its unique, fluid appeal to the human psyche.
February 1, 2008
USC's Virginia Kuhn relates how the candidates' carefully constructed messages get sideswiped by Internet denizens.
January 18, 2008
A trio of USC professors weigh in on a range of topics, including U.S. foreign policy and military tactics, NATO and diplomatic history, and war in the Middle East.
January 18, 2008
With its focus on bin Laden's videos, the media misses copious Internet content that has more to say to the al Qaeda faithful and more to teach us about fighting terrorism, says USC's Philip Seib.
January 4, 2008
Leadership experts and White House veterans Warren Bennis and Tom Freedman look to history for the qualities that make a great American president.
January 4, 2008
As we transition into 2008, U.S. Supreme Court Justices hear arguments on election law, the death penalty, the rights of detainees, discrimination, and age bias.
December 14, 2007
Instead of blindly following the bankrupt policy of more sanctions, the West must acknowledge Iran's security and status needs and find a way to reintegrate it into the mainstream of the international community, says Naj Meshkati of the Viterbi School.
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