News Clips

The federal government should suspend the Trump Organization from doing business with agencies. The Trump family businesses should in fact be debarred, but the standard for suspension is lower, the case is more clear, and the permissible period for suspension is sufficient for the government to avoid the worst risks associated with doing additional business with the Trump family, writes Kathleen Clark.

Mexican culture scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado, of Arts & Sciences, writes an op-ed in The Washington Post criticizing the new novel “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins. He calls the book “a reminder of the deep ignorance regarding Mexico and Mexicans in U.S. culture.”

Patrick Rishe, director, Sports Business Program

The government’s woefully inadequate welfare package highlights its failure to implement Basic Law Article 145 to improve people’s livelihoods. The apathy in the business and international communities is shameful, writes David Meyer.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin explains what an endowment is and how it works in the first installment of a three-part series exploring the university’s endowment.

Americans need to learn that Mexico is a friend and ally, not a threat, and that Mexicans on both sides of the border are not menaces, but rather important contributors to North America and the world, writes Ignacio Sánchez Prado.

Steven Smith, the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science

Caitlyn Collins, assistant professor of sociology

Robert Criss, professor of earth and planetary sciences

Kathleen Clark, professor of law