Time quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about the rise of white supremacy. “As University of Southern California homeland security scholar and former FBI agent, Erroll Southers has said, white supremacy is no longer a movement on the fringes but rather ‘is being globalized at a very rapid pace.’ This is happening within Read more…
Voice of America quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on why white supremacy is no longer a fringe movement. “I don’t think it’s (white supremacy) any longer a fringe movement, it is certainly coming of age. It is being globalized at a very rapid pace,” said Erroll Southers, a professor of Read more…
USA Today published an Op-Ed written by Erroll G. Southers, former FBI special agent, professor of national and homeland security at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, director of USC Safe Communities Institute, and director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies. It’s a group of extremists and potential “terrorists,” with Read more…
Pacific Standard quoted Jeffrey Jenkins of the USC Price School about the ideological spectrum of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives. “The Democratic Party is a reasonably wide ‘ideological tent’ in the House these days,” Jeffery A. Jenkins, a University of Southern California public policy professor whose work focuses on Read more…
CBS News Los Angeles affiliate KNX-AM interviewed Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center about the Southern California housing market. Richard Green anticipated a 5% to 10% percent decrease in housing price in the Southern California. Another problem is more people are moving out of California than moving in, which could result in Read more…
The Washington Post quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School about the use of blackface to dehumanize and devalue black people. But for almost as long, there has been opposition to blackface, especially by people who thought that efforts to portray black people as lazy, stupid or hypersexual dovetailed with efforts to Read more…
The Oregonian quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about law enforcement strategies to communicate with extremist groups. The confiding tone of Niiya’s emails and texts could be taken as preferential treatment to people not familiar with police technique, said Erroll G. Southers, a national security professor at the University of Southern Read more…
CBC Radio Canada quoted Christian Grose of the USC Dornsife College about California’s shift more to the left with Gavin Newsom as the state’s governor. California’s new governor seems “a little bit more partisan” than his predecessor, Jerry Brown, according to Christian Grose, a political scientist at the University of Southern California who studies partisanship. Full Read more…
Sirius XM’s “Knowledge@Wharton” interviewed William Resh of the USC Price School about the long term impact the government shutdown could have on federal employees and the contract workforce. William Resh: the employees of contractors were affected much worse than federal employees. Full tape here
Los Angeles Daily News published an op-ed by Marlon Boarnet of the USC Price School on why a monorail might be a viable transportation alternative in Los Angeles’ car-driven culture. Boarnet highlighted successful monorail systems in Japan, China, Brazil and Europe as models to transport Angelenos between the Valley and the Westside. “Modern Read more…
The New York Times cited research by Christian Grose of the USC Dornsife College about business interests and public officials’ support for removing racially intolerant symbols. Leading Virginia business groups have stopped short of calling for the resignation of the state’s top three elected officials, all embroiled in personal scandals. Most corporate executives Read more…
Los Angeles Times quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center about declining housing prices in Southern California. Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, has said prices could fall 5% to 10% over the next two years. The Realtors group predicts prices across the state will be essentially Read more…
The New York Times quoted David Sloane of the USC Price School about the viability of legalized human composting. “It’s this interesting combination of environmental sensibility and individual choice,” David C. Sloane, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California, said of the Northwest region. Now the prospect of legalized Read more…
Slate quoted Christian Grose of the USC Dornsife College on how candidates must build coalitions in majority-minority congressional districts. Christian Grose, a political science professor at the University of Southern California who has conducted research on the racial dynamics of congressional representation, argued that the success of candidates in majority-minority districts depended on Read more…
The Boston Globe featured research by Marlon Boarnet of the USC Price School on barriers to making public transportation more hospitable for women. Boarnet described his research on travel habits of women living near the Expo light rail line in Los Angeles and reasons they increased their light rail use only half as Read more…
The Los Angeles Times quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price Bedrosian Center on the effect of FBI corruption inquiry into LA City Hall. “It certainly doesn’t help Eric Garcetti to be connected in any way” to the FBI probe, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst and former USC professor. Read more…
Voice of America quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about Vice President Mike Pence’s role in the White House. Some of Pence’s critics say he has taken on that role excessively, notes Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She calls Read more…
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” interviewed Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about President Donald Trump’s policy clashes with California. Trump versus California on so many policy decisions: immigration, DACA, and what is next for the Dreamers. Healthcare, environment, taxes, national monuments and on and on and on. There’s been a political as Read more…
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” interviewed Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about President Donald Trump’s policy clashes with California. Trump versus California on so many policy decisions: immigration, DACA, and what is next for the Dreamers. Healthcare, environment, taxes, national monuments and on and on and on. There’s been Read more…
KPCC-FM interviewed Nicolas Duquette of the USC Price School on how the new tax reform bill will impact different nonprofits. Nicolas Duquette, an assistant professor at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, says the effect of these changing tax incentives will be felt by different kinds of nonprofits in different ways. Charities serving Read more…
The Wrap quoted Abby K. Wood of the USC Gould School on why it is unlikely comedian Rosie O’Donnell will be prosecuted for offering money to senators in exchange for a “no” vote on the tax reform bill. Abby K. Wood, an associate professor of law, political science and public policy Read more…
Fox & Hounds Daily published commentary by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School and Doug Jeffe on the similarities between American and British politics and society. Sexual harassment stories are peppering the newspapers and newscasts in Britain, just as they are here. English politicians, news presenters and entertainers are the fodder Read more…
Las Vegas Review-Journal quoted Nicolas Duquette of the USC Price School and James Moore of the USC Viterbi School about the viability of the Las Vegas Monorail Co.’s plans to expand. USC assistant professor of public policy Nicolas Duquette, who reviewed the monorail’s latest annual financial statement with the Review-Journal, said if ticket Read more…
Fox News quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center about the contributing factors in California’s affordable housing crisis. “Supply and demands works,” said USC real estate professor Richard Green. “People want to be here and we’re not accommodating them with new housing and so the cost of the housing goes up.” A Read more…
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” interviewed Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about a proposal to keep net neutrality regulations alive in California and Gov. Jerry Brown’s issues with the congressional tax reform bill. Today on State of Affairs: Acting mayor London Breed takes over in San Francisco after the sudden death of Read more…