Experts in the News

"We can and must still expect a full spectrum of cyber operations from foreign adversaries," wrote Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach. "Good threat intelligence is essential to defending yourself from the inevitable attacks to come."

“The Trump administration is responsible for the single worst public health failure in the last 100 years,” said Peter Hotez, fellow in disease and poverty.

Though endowed with the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now facing ruin. Latin America energy fellow Francisco Monaldi talked about what went wrong.

Coordinated electoral fraud involves individuals or organizations harvesting ballots in support of specific candidates, and in Texas, that’s limited to a relatively small number of operatives who harvest a few dozen ballots, said fellow Mark Jones.

If a major hurricane struck the Houston Ship Channel, the chemical soup left behind would cast a pall over southeast Texas for decades to come, said Rice faculty scholar Jim Blackburn. “You could say goodbye to economic development, to entire communities, and to one of the most prolific estuaries in the United States."