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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and how disasters change politics
A long line of people waiting to in a bread line in New York City during the Great Depression in 1932

In the absence of substantial government relief programs during the Great Depression, free food was distributed with private funds in some urban centers to large numbers of the unemployed.

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and how disasters change politics

History professor Brent Cebul talks about lessons politicians can take from the Great Depression and the New Deal and how disasters like the current pandemic can change politics.

Kristen de Groot

As Europeans flag concerns over faulty Chinese coronavirus equipment, state media is leading Beijing’s fight back

As Europeans flag concerns over faulty Chinese coronavirus equipment, state media is leading Beijing’s fight back

Jacques deLisle of the Law School and School of Arts and Sciences said that the coronavirus pandemic has been on opportunity for China to demonstrate the strengths of its authoritarian government. “The U.S. failure of competence allows China to look very competent and to not take the heat it deserves,” he said.

Russian trolls politicized vaccines in 2016. Could coronavirus be next?

Russian trolls politicized vaccines in 2016. Could coronavirus be next?

A study about online misinformation and public health authored by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and postdoc Yotam Ophir of the Annenberg Public Policy Center was cited. “It seems like the coronavirus is consistently being framed as a political issue,” Ophir said. "The virus doesn’t work this way. You get it whether you’re a liberal or a conservative.”

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies
researchers in the singh nano labs

Postdoctoral researcher Sam Nicaise, center, working on newly-made nanocardboard plates. Bargatin and his team have spent years creating this and other ultralight materials, using the state-of-the-art nanofabrication and characterization equipment inside the Singh Center.

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies

To help in the ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus, groups across campus are donating what they can, from masks and gloves to ventilators.

Erica K. Brockmeier