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November 8, 2020
Memo to President-Elect Biden on Science and COVID-19
Senior science and technology fellow Neal Lane co-authored a list of needed actions to quell the pandemic and restore competency and trust in federal research agencies. "The country cannot continue to bear the ad hoc, ineffective and incoherent pandemic response it has endured under Trump," wrote Lane and Roger Pielke Jr.
Read more at Nature. November 7, 2020
Biden Looks to the Future, Calls for Reconciliation
Political science fellow Mark Jones discussed the election results.
Read more on Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall, KPRC-TV. November 7, 2020
What Will It Take to Unify America?
Urban politics fellow Bob Stein discussed how, or if, we can overcome division in the U.S. post-election.
Listen to the discussion at Houston Public Radio. November 6, 2020
How Difficult Is It to Steal a National Election?
Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach considered the question.
Listen to Wallach's Q&A with the Houston Chronicle. November 6, 2020
2020 Election Reframed the War on Drugs
Oregon’s move to decriminalize hard drugs marks a major step forward and demonstrates that reforms need to go beyond legalizing only cannabis, drug policy fellow Katharine Neill Harris said.
Read more at The Lund Report.