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ND in the News: April 2025

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  1. Robert Johnson, an economist at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, told Newsweek it typically takes a long time to assess the full impact of changes in trade policy, and he doesn't expect quick answers on this "very large policy change."

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    Robert Johnson

    Department of Economics

  2. Rahul Oka, an associate research professor with the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, said it lacks the resources — particularly water — and infrastructure to sustain a viable economy that can rely on local production.

  3. “Tariffs have redistributional effects,” says Robert Johnson, an international economist who teaches at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in Indiana. “But who are the winners and losers?” he asks.

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    Robert Johnson

    Department of Economics

  4. In “How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management,” Luca Grillo, a professor of classics at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, has consulted “Pliny & Co.” to create one.

  5. By Madhav Joshi, Research Professor & Associate Director, Peace Accords Matrix (PAM), Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs, University of 91³Ô¹Ï.

  6. By David Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of 91³Ô¹Ï; and Geoffrey C. Layman, Professor of Political Science, University of 91³Ô¹Ï.

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    David Campbell

    Political Science

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    Geoffrey Layman

    Department of Political Science

  7. Pioneered by 91³Ô¹Ï law professor Richard Garnett, a conservative scholar I admire and respect, the belief descends from the medieval Catholic teaching championing the “freedom of the church,” or libertas ecclesiae. In other words, it’s an aspirational Catholic governance ideal, not an argument derived from the Constitution that belongs in the Supreme Court.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    91³Ô¹Ï Law School

  8. Lee Haines at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in Indiana and her colleagues looked into one such drug, called nitisinone, which has been approved by the US Food & Drug Administration to treat several rare inherited disorders in people, including in infants.

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    Lee Rafuse Haines

    Biological Sciences

  9. HuffPost, Yahoo! News

    And 91³Ô¹Ï professor Derek Muller has argued there isn’t “any ‘one weird trick’ to getting around presidential term limits,” suggesting Trump’s rhetoric is, as a “lame-duck president,” just intended to “show as much strength as possible.”

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    Derek Muller

    Law School

  10. “Anyone who has spent any time in any Catholic school must realize that they’ve spent time face-to-face with the violence, brutality and innate inhumanity of the death penalty,” said G. Marcus Cole, 91³Ô¹Ï Law School dean. 

  11. Derek Muller, a professor of election law at 91³Ô¹Ï, told The Associated Press: "I don't think there's any 'one weird trick' to getting around presidential term limits. A lame-duck president like Donald Trump has every incentive in the world to make it seem like he's not a lame duck."

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    Derek Muller

    Law School

  12. To make sense of these policy changes, Robert Johnson, the Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor of Economics at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, explained how tariffs affect global economies and what this means for U.S. engagement in global trade.

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    Robert Johnson

    Department of Economics

  13. “There is polarization between political factions that has weakened this response to the call for creation care,” said Sister Damien Marie Savino, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist who is dean of science and sustainability at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is a visiting fellow at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in Indiana.



    At 91³Ô¹Ï’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, scholars will reflect on “Laudato Si'” in an April 15 panel titled “Ten Years of Laudato Si’: Operationalizing Integral Ecology.”

    “I think there are small outcroppings of things that actually wholly align with ‘Laudato Si’,’ but it’s certainly not at any accelerating rate that’ll make a substantive difference,” said Richard Marcantonio, an assistant professor of environment, peace and global affairs at the Kroc Institute.

  14. The Catholic Herald

    “These results indicate that people are really listening to what the pope has to say,” said Lakshmi Iyer, a professor of economics at 91³Ô¹Ï. “And the topics he addresses really matter.”

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    Lakshmi Iyer

    Keough School of Global Affairs; Department of Economics

  15. Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, said the Constitution's 12th Amendment says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States".

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    Derek Muller

    Law School

  16. "Nobody at FedEx or UPS is looking after the public interest," James O'Rourke, who teaches management and organization at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï and studies the USPS, told Business Insider. "They're looking after the shareholders."

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    James O’Rourke

    James O'Rourke

    Mendoza College of Business

  17. By David Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, and Geoffrey C. Layman, Professor of Political Science at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï.

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    David Campbell

    Political Science

    Professor Layman has salt-and-pepper colored hair, mustache and beard, and wears a dark blue blazer and tie over a white shirt.

    Geoffrey Layman

    Department of Political Science

  18. "I don't think there's any 'one weird trick' to getting around presidential term limits," Derek Muller, a professor of election law at 91³Ô¹Ï, told the Associated Press.

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    Derek Muller

    Law School

  19. “It reads like somebody who doesn’t want to be treated like a lame duck and is throwing it out there right now,” said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï and a scholar in election law. “It’s really hard to be a lame duck president or to be treated that way, and people are talking to you like your term’s already over.”

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    Derek Muller

    Law School