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November 22, 2016
WWS Reacts: How Facebook Influenced the US Presidential Election
Facebook — which has been raked over the coals for allowing the dissemination of fake news stories about the 2016 election — is now taking a hard and careful look at what role it may have played among American voters. Some say the election results illustrate a social media “echo chamber,” in which users gather news and…
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November 22, 2016
Better Living Through Behavioral Science
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November 21, 2016
Schools Remain a Potential Hotspot for Measles Transmission, Even in the Vaccine Era
Measles, one of the world's most contagious diseases, can spread more quickly in schools than previously thought, according to Princeton University-led research. The researchers report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the only sure method of controlling measles among schoolchildren is to…
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November 17, 2016
Politics & Polls #21: Asymmetric Politics
Political polarization is the worst it’s been since the Civil War, some experts argue. How did we get here? How have America’s ideologies shifted so much in the past four decades? What forces underlie the growing divide between Republicans and Democrats? And how has social media and varying sources of information widened the…
November 16, 2016
Q&A: Online Health Care Records to Automated Cars – Privacy and Economic Policy Needed to Keep Up with Our Rapidly Evolving World
Phil Weiser, founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, works hard to “know what’s next” in the world of telecommunications, internet, privacy and policy. He has dedicated the past 20 years to telecommunications and law, starting his career at the U.S…
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November 16, 2016
WWS Reacts: What a Trump Presidency Really Means for the Affordable Care Act
During the campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump said he would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a system that covers 20 million people who were previously uninsured. Now, Trump says he’ll hold on to certain ACA provisions, such as providing care for those with pre-existing conditions. Regardless of what’s being said…
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November 14, 2016
News Clips: Week of Nov. 14 - 20
The following is a compilation of media clips in which WWS faculty members have been mentioned, cited or quoted. This list is updated weekly. If an item is missing, please email extaff@princeton.edu, and we will add it promptly.Why Won't Giving Wipe Out Global Poverty?cnsnews.com (Angus Deaton)The Incendiary Appeal of…
November 10, 2016
Q&A: Protection from DDoS Attacks
Twitter experienced a global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in October, causing the social media site to temporarily go dark. Hackers have attempted similar DDoS attacks with Hillary Clinton and President-Elect Donald Trump’s campaign websites.What makes these attacks so alarming, and how can they be stopped? In…
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November 10, 2016
Politics & Polls #20: What Just Happened?
In a stunning upset, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. Professors Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang react to the results in episode #20, their first post-election recording. Among a host of issues, they discuss why the polls might’ve been off and what a Trump presidency means the nation and the history…
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November 10, 2016
Two Wilson School Alumni Assume New Leadership Roles
Two MPA graduates of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, who also are administrators at the School, are transitioning to new phases of their careers.Gilbert Collins MPA ’99, who has served as the director of graduate student life at the Wilson School since February 2014, will begin…