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November 3, 2015 —  Jackie Calmes, spring 2015 fellow and national correspondent for The New York Times, profiles talk radio host Steve Deace and examines his influence on the 2016 election. Read more in The New York Times Magazine.  The article is an extension of the paper she wrote while at the Shorenstein Center, “They Don’t Give a Damn

November 1, 2015 — Hendrik Hertzberg, former fellow (1987-1988) and senior editor and staff writer for The New Yorker, analyzes the performances of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the October 28 Republican debate. Read more in The New Yorker. 

October 30, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and fall 2014 fellow, writes about Turkey’s deteriorating press freedom, including the recent government seizure of TV stations and newspapers. Read more in the Huffington Post.

October 26, 2015 — Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist and fall 2011 fellow, argues that the Republican Party’s current turmoil is caused in part by years of anti-government rhetoric. Read more in The Boston Globe.

October 21, 2015 — Zephyr Teachout, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Shorenstein Center in 2010, writes about a new study backed by big business that argues that political lobbying is harming the American economy. Read more in The Guardian. 

October 21, 2015 — Trudy Lieberman, spring 2001 fellow, health journalist, and press critic for Columbia Journalism Review, writes about an international panel of journalists with a goal of encouraging more inter-country dialogue about health care and policy. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.

October 21, 2015 — Robert Lenzner, spring 2014 fellow and contributing editor at Forbes, reviews a new book by British economist John Kay that argues that the global finance sector is still “terribly risky,” with little changing in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Read more in The Atlantic.

October 21, 2015 — Melinda Henneberger, spring 2013 fellow, has been named the next editor in chief of Roll Call. She joins Roll Call from Bloomberg Politics, where she covered the 2016 presidential campaign as a senior writer. Read more on Roll Call’s website. 

October 20, 2015 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, writes in the Financial Times that Justin Trudeau triumphed in Canada’s general election because voters wanted not only “a change of regime but also because Canadians wanted a change of politics” – a prime minister willing to work with adversaries.  Read more in

October 20, 2015 — “Gasps from the audience filled the room during a Kennedy School of Government seminar Monday afternoon as BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood played video of himself and his news crew under attack in Syria in 2014. Images of assault rifles and dusty streets flashed across the bouncing camera lens as Wood and

October 14, 2015 — Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast special correspondent and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2003), writes about the diverging views held by the media and the public regarding who won the first Democratic debate. Read more on The Daily Beast. 

October 12, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2014), writes about Turkey’s deteriorating democracy, including recent increases in threats to the press. Read more in Today’s Zaman.