SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 12 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Public Health Association posted the following news release: * * * AJPH Analysis Highlights the Importance of Public Deliberation in Developing Efficient Public Health Policies * Contact: mediarelations@apha.org Public health policies are commonly evaluated by their financial costs and expected outcomes. However, policy decisions must also be supported by strong evidence, political feasibility, effective implementation, and public trust to achieve lasting public health more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary by John Kartch: * * * 40 Examples of Good News Arising from Big Beautiful Bill's Full Business Expensing Provisions In addition to across-the-board tax cuts for households, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025 provides full business expensing for American businesses. In their own words, U.S. employers describe the benefits of the expensing provisions in the bill: Sukup Manufacturing (Sheffield, Iowa) -- Expensing helps Sukup  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Aug. 13, 2026, by non-resident senior fellows Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov: * * * From Guns to Gulags: The FSB's Empire Builders The days when the KGB's successors were content with plain clothes and concealed weapons are gone -- they are much more ambitious these days. - An SUV or a truck with a heavy machine gun mounted in the trunk bed along with a three-man crew is an increasingly common sight on Russian roads. Grouped into mobile fir more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Aug. 12, 2026, by Enrique Dans, senior fellow with the Tech Policy Program: * * * Why China's Open-Source Message Wins China models are cheap, functional, and accessible -- but they come with a cost. - President Xi Jinping's speech at the recent Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference presented his country as an appealing champion of open, multilateral, accessible AI to benefit all of humanity. For many countries, the US offers som more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, Aug. 13 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * Home or Away? NFL Stadium Attendance Protest Impact Depended on Who Visited, Researchers Find * Research inspiration can come from any number of places. For Oskar Harmon, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at UConn, a recently published paper was inspired by a conversation with a friend. About football. "One of my close friends said they were no longer going to watch NFL games," Harmon explains. "I was a bit surprised, becaus more PR

BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 13 -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * Journalism, key to combating bad practices in science * A UAB study investigates for the first time watchdog science journalism in Ibero-America, an essential practice to combat fraud, abuse and corporate interference in science. Watchdog science journalism has become a fundamental tool to counter scientific malpractices, such as publication fraud, abuse, and political and corporate manipulation of science. A study by the Universitat Auto more PR

BELLEVUE, Washington, Aug. 12 [Category: Political] -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued the following news release: * * * OREGON MEASURE 114 BACKFIRED; RESIDENTS BOUGHT MORE GUNS * BELLEVUE, WA - Oregon gun prohibitionists just learned a painful lesson with the announcement of a new study which reveals passage of anti-gun Measure 114 led to a stunning increase in gun buying, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls it a victory for gun rights and the Second Amendment. "This was a more PR

OXFORD, Mississippi, Aug. 13 -- The University of Mississippi posted the following news: * * * Southern Studies Professor Named Russell Sage Fellow * OXFORD, Miss. - Data from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the official U.S. poverty rate at 10.6%, representing about 35.9 million people. University of Mississippi professor Ryan Parsons will spend the next year on a Russell Sage Fellowship analyzing the issue, including why it's so hard for people to get out of poverty. The Russell Sage Foundation named Parsons, assistant professor of sociology more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 14 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Clearing the air: Public prefers 'natural' approaches to curbing climate change Public support for climate solutions isn't just about whether the technique works--it's also about whether people perceive it as a natural process. That key takeaway of research from the University of Michigan and other institutions offers big implications for how policymakers, scientists and communicators talk about new climate technologies--and how much the pub more PR