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Hegseth accused of war crimes, Senator Mark Kelly investigation, comic book ban and much more
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December 05, 2025
University of Notre Dame Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law Mary Ellen O’Connell provides her legal perspective on whether Pete Hegseth committed a war crime in the Caribbean.
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National Catholic Reporter
Opinion | For Catholics, mass deportations are immoral
December 04, 2025
By David Lantigua, an associate professor of theology and the co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
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Theology
The Conversation
Lasting peace in Ukraine may hinge on independent monitors – yet Trump’s 28-point plan barely mentions them
December 03, 2025
By Peter J. Quaranto, Visiting Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame, and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, Professor of the Practice in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
On First Trip Abroad, Pope Leo Echoed Francis’s Message, Not His Style
December 03, 2025
“He’s not emotive or telling you what he feels all the time,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor who specializes in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. But “he’s able to be fully present to people.” With Francis, “there was a self-consciousness,” said Ms. Cummings. “What he was doing was going to get attention. It didn’t mean that it was false,” she added. But “Pope Leo doesn’t seem to care about that.”
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American Studies
Nature
Fake or faulty chemo threatens cancer care in Africa
December 02, 2025
Marya Lieberman, the study’s co-author and a professor of cancer research from University of Notre Dame, US joined colleagues from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Cameroon to conduct covert and overt sampling of seven frontline chemotherapies in their countries.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
CNBC
With Trump’s tax bill set to dent giving by the wealthy, can middle-class donors make up the difference?
December 01, 2025
Economist Daniel Hungerman said he questions whether the new deduction would spur a substantial number of donations or mainly reward taxpayers who would have given anyway. Trump’s tax bill also permanently raises the standard deduction, which significantly dampens charitable giving, Hungerman said. His study estimated that the higher deduction led to a permanent annual drop of $16 billion after the 2017 reforms.
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Economics
NPR
How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America
December 01, 2025
Economist Melissa Kearney's book The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind got a lot of attention from proponents of marriage when it was released two years ago. It argued that two married people together bring in more income and have more time to devote to their children. "These resource advantages then set children up with more opportunities to get ahead in life," Kearney wrote in her book.
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The Conversation
A year on, the Israeli-Lebanese ceasefire looks increasingly fragile − could a return to cyclical violence come next?
November 26, 2025
By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Independent
What happens next in the DOJ’s case against James Comey and Letitia James after court tosses charges
November 25, 2025
“It is not entirely clear whether the statute of limitations has in fact expired — lawyers will argue both sides — but for Comey there is at least a chance that the government will not be able to re-indict him,” Jennifer Mason McAward, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, told The Independent.
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The Guardian
Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say
November 25, 2025
That reading of the pardon’s text is believable, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, who first wrote about the request Laiss’s lawyers were making. “Here you’ve got kind of a broad set of conduct and an undefined group of individuals who are protected,” Muller said in an interview. “It’s quite plausible to read this and suggest that anyone involved in voting for slates of presidential electors in 2020 has now been pardoned.”
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Law School
The Christian Science Monitor
US, Ukraine find common ground on peace. Will Russia join them?
November 25, 2025
“The situation on the ground in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, the military is having trouble with desertions ... and now Zelenskyy has a very big corruption scandal on his hands,” points out Michael Desch, an international affairs professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
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The Guardian
A united Ireland referendum must not be ‘another Brexit’, analysts say
November 24, 2025
The pair have analysed the political, economic and cultural rationales for any constitutional change in a book, For and Against a United Ireland, published by the Dublin-based Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame under their project Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South (Arins).
U.S. News & World Report
Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy
November 21, 2025
Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law and director of the Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School.
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CNN
Why it feels like your favorite websites keep going down
November 20, 2025
Twenty years ago, it was typical for IT services to down “all the time,” said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame and former computer scientist for the National Security Agency. “It would not be unusual to go a week at work having at least one outage of some IT service,” he said, noting that now everyone relies on the same large providers.
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Mendoza
The National Desk, ABC7, +8 others
Bad drugs or no drugs: Cancer patients face scary reality tied to foreign supply chain
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November 19, 2025
Marya Lieberman's team at the University of Notre Dame tested more than 180 samples of chemotherapy drugs, mostly from India, but shipped to more than 100 countries, including the U.S.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
The Economist
Is Donald Trump preparing to strike Venezuela or lining up a deal?
November 19, 2025
“The designation means nothing under international law,” says Mary Ellen O'Connell of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Notre Dame Law School
Fast Company
Why renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuels faster
November 18, 2025
Jay Gulledge is a visiting professor of practice in global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Tennessee.
Associated Press
Cloudflare outage impacts thousands, disrupts transit systems, ChatGPT, X and more
November 18, 2025
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up “it results in massive digital gridlock” for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said. While most people think there’s a direct line between their digital device and a website, what actually happens is that companies like Cloudflare sits in the middle of those connections, he said. Cloudflare is a “content delivery network” that takes content from 20% of the world’s websites and mirrors them on thousands of servers worldwide, said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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Irish Independent | Subscription Only
There is a rational debate to be had on a united Ireland, if we can rise above emotive tribalism
November 18, 2025
Pauric Dempsey is the executive director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a leading light of the ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South) project. This is an academic project funded by the institute and the Royal Irish Academy.
phys.org
Study shows how social media sentiment can predict when people move during crises, improving humanitarian response
November 18, 2025
A new study co-authored by University of Notre Dame researcher Helge-Johannes Marahrens shows that analyzing social media posts can help experts predict when people will move during crises, supporting faster and more effective aid delivery. "Traditional data, such as surveys, are extremely difficult to collect during forced migration crises," said Marahrens, assistant professor of computational social science in Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
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The Conversation
Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?
November 17, 2025
By Jay Gulledge, a visiting professor of the practice in global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
SCOTUS Skeptical of Rastafarian's Religious Suit
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November 13, 2025
John Meiser, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and director of the Religious Liberty Clinic, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments over a Rastafarian inmate's claim that prison guards violated his religious rights and should pay damages.
ABC News
Reopening government could avert recession, but risks remain, economists say
November 12, 2025
The end of the government shutdown will quickly reverse most of the economic damage, since furloughed workers are expected to spend backpay and SNAP recipients will likely rush to address any household food shortage, Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, told ABC News.
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Economics
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ABC News
Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
November 11, 2025
"Although various commentators and activists have spent weeks claiming that a vehicle for overturning Obergefell was being considered by the justices, no informed Court observers ever thought that the Court would grant review in this case," said Notre Dame Law professor Richard W. Garnett. "The case does not actually present, in a square and clean way, the question the coverage has suggested it does. The attention focused on this minor, factbound petition tells us more about the ongoing campaign to stir up public feeling regarding the Court than it does about live constitutional questions."
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Newsweek
Is Trump Refusing US Visas to Overweight People? What We Know
November 11, 2025
Erin Corcoran, a U.S. immigration law and policy professor at the University of Notre Dame, told The Times of London: "It’s yet another example of the way in which this current administration is trying to make it much harder to come here either temporarily or to remain here by targeting public-health issues.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
The Washington Post
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
November 11, 2025
Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard W. Garnett said in a statement that even if there had been an appetite to revisit same-sex marriage, this was not the case the justices would have used. To get to the marriage issue, the justices would first have had to rule that Davis, a government employee, had a constitutional right to ignore a law she disagreed with — a position the court would be unlikely to take, legal analysts noted.
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Notre Dame Law School
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The Christian Science Monitor
Americans are buying more Bibles. What does that mean for US Christianity?
November 11, 2025
The interest in specialty Bibles may indirectly indicate that religion is becoming more of a market economy, says Christian Smith, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, as different denominations “compete” for the faithful.
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Sociology
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The New York Times
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
November 10, 2025
Even so, Richard W. Garnett, a law professor and the director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, said the petition from Ms. Davis was always a long shot that attracted outsized media attention. “The case does not actually present, in a square and clean way, the question the coverage has suggested it does,” he said in a statement. The coverage, he said, “tells us more about the ongoing campaign to stir up public feeling regarding the court than it does about live constitutional questions.”
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Notre Dame Law School
USA Today
Supreme Court rejects challenge to landmark same-sex marriage decision
November 10, 2025
But Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard Garnett said Davis’ appeal was a “minor, fact-bound petition” that didn’t clearly give the justices the opportunity to revisit their 2015 decision. "Although various commentators and activists have spent weeks claiming that a vehicle for overturning Obergefell was being considered by the justices, no informed court observers ever thought that the court would grant review in this case,” he said. “The case does not actually present, in a square and clean way, the question the coverage has suggested it does.”
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Notre Dame Law School
The Times
Overweight? Good luck getting a US visa, Trump administration says
November 10, 2025
“It’s yet another example of the way in which this current administration is trying to make it much harder to come here either temporarily or to remain here by targeting public-health issues,” said Erin Corcoran, a US immigration law and policy professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs