WASHINGTON, March 26 (TNSbrep) -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release on March 25, 2026: * * * Boyle Statement on New GAO Debt Ceiling Report Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement in response to a new report (https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-107872.pdf) from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the economic consequences of deb more PR

OTTAWA, Ontario, March 27 -- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued the following commentary on March 26, 2026, by senior researcher and political economist Andrew Longhurst and Ricardo Tranjan: * * * The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities The world feels more chaotic than ever. The ongoing macroeconomic shocks and geopolitical conflicts have made uncertainty the new normal. In times like these, governments must act decisively and with focus. The Ontari more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 25, 2026, by Anda Bologa, senior researcher in the Tech Policy Program: * * * China Is Wiring the Western Balkans Chinese roads, surveillance systems, and digital partnerships are complicating the Western Balkans' path into European Union membership. * It started with a highway connecting the Montenegrin cities of Bar and Boljare. China's Exim Bank gave a $944 million loan for the first  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 25, 2026, by Democratic Resilience program fellow Mikhail Komin: * * * Putin Demands More Efficient Military Corruption Changes at the top of the defense hierarchy reveal old-style graft and pressure to raise military spending efficiency. * Russia's Ministry of Defense has a spending problem. That's not just because the country started a war of choice against Ukraine, at a staggering hum more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 24, 2026, by non-resident senior fellow Alexander Kolyandr: * * * Russia: Give Me Your Poor, Your Starving Masses The Kremlin is hard-wired to spot opportunity amid chaos. War-related food shortages provide an unexpected bonus. * War in the Middle East is lining Russia's state coffers with an unexpected windfall of billions of dollars from higher oil prices. Less material, but arguably m more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 25, 2026, by visiting research fellow Andrei Yakovlev: * * * Russia's Gray Man Makes His Move Putin's defense minister is confounding his critics and winning greater power in Russia's murky despotism. * A recent surge in high-level repression alongside ongoing asset nationalization and redistribution points to intensifying infighting within Russia's elite, as rival groups compete for con more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * From Simulation to Strategy: Climate Modeling Motivates Action at the Top * CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 26, 2026 -New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, demonstrated a stronger understanding of climate solutions, felt  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Republicans Privately Fear This Swing State Democrat [The Washington Post] Washington Post: "[Republicans are] lamenting their bitterly divided primary field made worse by a recruiting failure when popular Republican Gov. Brian Kemp declined to run for the seat" In case you missed it, new reporting from The Washington Post is shining a light on GOP panic in the Peach State as  more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 27 -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog on March 26, 2026, by Julia Wilburn: * * * PBM Bill Heads to Senate Floor, AG Threatens to Sue CVS Over Texts to Customers The Tennessee Senate Finance Ways and Means Committee passed the FAIR Rx Act (SB2040/HB1959) with bipartisan support on March 24. The bill would bar pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from owning the pharmacies they manage, targeting vertically integrated companies like CVS, more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, March 27 (TNSjou) -- Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg campus issued the following Q&A on March 26, 2026, involving Mariah Kupfner, assistant professor of American studies and public heritage: * * * Q&A: What has women's needlework meant throughout history? Women's needlework from the 19th and 20th centuries can offer a unique look into their political activism and what it meant to be a woman at different points in history, according to Mariah Kupfner, an assi more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 26 -- Yale Law School posted the following news: * * * Professor Akhil Reed Amar's "Born Equal" Receives Annual Lincoln Institute Book Prize * Back to News Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar 4 '84 was awarded the 2026 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award for "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920" at the 29th Annual Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposium. The symposium 5 was hosted at Ford's Theatre in Washington,  more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 26 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following Q&A with Mariah Kupfner, assistant professor of American studies and public heritage: * * * Q&A: What has women's needlework meant throughout history? * MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -Women's needlework from the 19th and 20th centuries can offer a unique look into their political activism and what it meant to be a woman at different points in history, according to Mariah Kupfner, an assistant professor of America more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 27 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Five faculty members named AAAS Fellows By Lindsey Haugh Five Virginia Tech faculty members have been named to the 2025 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. "Virginia Tech's AAAS Fellows represent a distinguished community of scholars and innovators whose work spans disciplines from pioneering research and transformative teaching to technological advancement, leadership  more PR