CMC In The News

In an interview with Newsweek about what would happen if Donald Trump was elected for a second presidential term, Prof. Andrew Busch said it was unclear whether Trump would give federal law enforcement reform “any sustained administrative attention” based on his first term.

Pennsylvania’s Times Leader featured the CMC-Rose Institute of State and Local Government’s poll of Pennsylvanians, which finds that voters think Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is more relatable, more competent and more likely to take on economic and intellectual elites than Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. Benzinga also featured the poll.

The Pasadena Star News highlighted CMC’s Rose Parade^® float rendering, noting that the float will be built “by local business, Fiesta Parade Floats. The entry honors the college’s 75^th anniversary by highlighting the importance of leadership in higher education. Elements include iconic campus landmarks, the college’s renowned public art program, student leaders and popular landscaping seen throughout the region. The book and globe are key symbols that highlight the private, liberal arts college’s commitment to global education.”

NBC’s local affiliate also featured CMC’s Rose Parade float rendering.

The Strait Times cited Prof. Ken Miller’s appearance on a Texas Tribune panel in a feature about the exodus of Californians to Texas. “I think it’s important to note that newcomers can change a place in some respects” said Miller, who is director of the Rose Institute and the author of Texas vs. California A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America. “Californians will change Texas in important ways, but a place changes newcomers as well.

Prof. Ron Riggio was quoted in Business Insider about the four reasons employees follow a toxic boss. “A bad leader attracts henchpersons who surround them because they like being connected to a powerful person,” Riggio said.

Yahoo! News shared Prof. Jack Pitney’s political expertise as the mid-term elections approached. Pitney suggested that on the economy, Democrats need to be careful in the framing. “If they say inflation is coming down, people will hear prices are coming down,” and that’s not happening, he said. “A decline in the rate of increase [in inflation] isn’t a great talking point.”

The Mercury News interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about the Golden State’s midterm elections. In California, “it remains to be seen whether people get excited about the House races when there aren’t any competitive statewide races,” he said.

The New York Times quoted Prof. Minxin Pei reflecting on China’s rhetoric during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “The official line referred to the U.S. and the Soviet Union as one imperialist fighting another imperialist, each one a threat to the world,” Pei said. “It was a case of ‘dog biting dog.’”

The Bharat Express News also published the story.

In his op-ed for The Globe and Mail, “Xi’s inevitable third term will add a new tier to the Communist Party’s house of cards,” Prof. Minxin Pei analyzed the prospects of the Chinese president’s third term.

The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Prof. Minxin Pei about the economic and societal consequences of isolationism faced by China. “Before 2018 and the trade war, their goal was aspirational. Today, it is existential,” he said, adding that China’s leaders “have elevated self-sufficiency to a level China has not seen since the end of the Mao era” in 1976.

Prof. Manfred Keil, associate director of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy, and Muxi Li ’23, a Lowe Institute research analyst, published an op-ed in The San Bernardino Sun, “National recession vs. Inland Empire recession, where do we stand?” They wrote: “… whether the list of pundits declaring that the U.S. economy is in recession are right or wrong, the IE region is not.”

In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Prof. Minxin Pei measured the impact of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit. “Even if (Pelosi) had decided to skip Taipei on her tour of Asia, China’s bellicosity toward Taiwan would have continued to intensify, possibly triggering another Taiwan Strait crisis in the near future,” he wrote.

Prof. Pei also explored this topic in an op-ed for Bloomberg.

Prof. Frederick Lynch was interviewed by the Daily Bulletin about people who have avoided being infected by COVID-19 and are weighing the tradeoffs of easing their precautions. “The decision a lot of Americans are thinking about is, how long do you want to put your life on hold? It’s the third summer of COVID. … A lot of people are basically saying, ‘The hell with it,’” he said. Lynch, who teaches a course on health care policy, noted that the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths have been among people 65 and older.

Prof. Andrew Sinclair was interviewed by The New York Times about California’s election system, which allows all candidates from all political parties to be listed on the same ballot. The top two vote-getters then face off in the general election regardless of party affiliation. The Times asked Prof. Sinclair if California’s “open” primary system is a possible solution to hyperpartisanship.

“I think it’s probably the case that it can produce more moderate legislators,” Prof. Sinclair said. “But it’s hard to sort out, and there’s a fairly robust debate about it.”

Prof. Hilary Appel, an expert on Russian Politics and West and East European Politics, was interviewed by Spectrum News 1 SoCal about the Russian-Ukraine War, how long the war may last, the role of the US, and Putin’s health.