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The Boston Globe
Meet the Boston-born winners of one of literature’s most prestigious prizes
September 14, 2026
(Joyelle) McSweeney, a Harvard University graduate, is cofounder and co-editor of Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. She also serves as Chair of the English Department and the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
C-SPAN
Justice Brett Kavanaugh Reflects on September 11, 2001 Attacks
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September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh reflected on the September 11, 2001, attacks and their lasting impact. He spoke at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
The Atlantic
The Permanent Questions: What is the Good Life? (Podcast)
September 14, 2026
Podcast interview with host David Brooks. Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
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Department of Philosophy
DW (Deutsche Welle) TV
When do arms exports violate international law?
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September 14, 2026
Judges at the United Nations' top court are weighing whether Nicaragua's case against Germany over support for Israel during the war in Gaza can proceed. Nicaragua says Germany breached its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention, while Germany argues the court lacks jurisdiction. What does international law say about a country's responsibility when it supplies arms to an ally? Law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell from the University of Notre Dame explains.
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CNN
Justice Kavanaugh, then a Bush aide, remembers grief and unity
September 14, 2026
“One of the things that comes out of September 11 is this grief and anger and resolution, but also unity. Everyone in Yankee Stadium chanting ‘USA! USA!’” Kavanaugh told the University of Notre Dame.
Courthouse News Service
Kavanaugh recalls 9/11 chaos, defends Bush's war on terror
September 14, 2026
Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined a panel at the University of Notre Dame on Friday to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, calling for a focus on unity instead of division in the aftermath of the war on terror.
Law.com
'You Gotta Run': Justice Kavanaugh Recalls Chaotic Dash Out of White House on 9/11
September 14, 2026
"Don't forget much from that day," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday during a 9/11 memorial event at the University of Notre Dame. "Seared in my memory is the secret service agents saying, 'Run. Sprint. Ladies take off your heels and sprint.' And we were all kind of sprinting out the gate toward Lafeyette Park."
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CNN
‘Theatrical’ litigation: Republican AGs fight for Trump voting rules that their election officials say they can’t implement
September 14, 2026
“There’s a suggestion on the election administration side that no one really thinks this is going to be implemented,” said Derek Muller, an elections law professor at Notre Dame. “And a lot of the litigation is just theatrical at this point.”
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Bloomberg
Kavanaugh Says 9/11 Sprint From White House ‘Seared’ in Memory
September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he’s forgotten little 25 years later of his hectic dash from the White House as he and other Bush administration staffers were rushed from the building following the 9/11 attacks in New York. “It’s seared in my memory — don’t forget much from that day — seared in my memory the Secret Service agent saying run, sprint, ladies take off your heels and sprint,” Kavanaugh said Friday during an appearance at Notre Dame.
Fox News
WATCH LIVE: Justice Kavanaugh speaks at Notre Dame as nation marks 25 years since 9/11
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September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks during a panel on the 25th commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks at the O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
Newsweek
Experts Predict No Fed Rate Cut Next Week: What It Means
September 11, 2026
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Campbell, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist and research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is more hawkish.
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Economics
America
In the footsteps of St. Francis: How my travels through Italy brought me closer to a beloved saint
September 11, 2026
“It was the cross of San Damiano that was the entrance point into his vocation, his mission to rebuild the church, and he spent his entire life unfolding that mission,” said Sister Damien Marie Savino, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist and a visiting professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
Marketplace
U.S. energy agency raises oil price forecast as war drags on
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September 11, 2026
Shippers might be able to adjust to a new normal, according to Eugene Gholz, who focuses on national security and economic policy at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
OSV News
Notre Dame-Vanderbilt report: Support for democracy rises in Americas, but concerns remain
September 11, 2026
Support for democracy has begun a modest recovery across the Americas, according to the 2026 Pulse of Democracy report by the University of Notre Dame‘s Keough School of Global Affairs and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy. However, researchers also expressed concern about the rise of authoritarianism. “The findings offer some encouraging signs, but they also underscore the work that remains,” Ann Mische, acting director of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies and an associate professor of sociology and peace studies, said in a statement.
Fortune
College-educated women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind
September 10, 2026
Other research on the question points in different directions, he noted. Economist David Autor and his coauthors found that manufacturing decline during the China Shock reduced marriage rates in the hardest-hit communities. Economists Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson, studying localized fracking booms that raised men’s earnings, found increases in both marital and nonmarital births—but no corresponding increase in marriage rates.
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Department of Economics
Devex | Subscription Only
Exclusive: OpenAI Foundation commits $60M to AI forecasting for farmers
September 10, 2026
The investment brings together the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and AIM for Scale, alongside international agricultural research center CIMMYT and the nonprofits Precision Development and Digital Green. AIM for Scale, which stands for Agricultural Innovation Mechanism for Scale, is an initiative launched by the Gates Foundation and the United Arab Emirates at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference, and is now funded through the University of Notre Dame.
The Telegraph
Mosquitoes are evolving to evade bed nets – but there may be a solution
September 10, 2026
“We’re battling evolution. And right now, we’re losing,” said Prof Neil Lobo, a research professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame.
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Bloomberg
Religious Freedom for All on Trial as Abortion Ban Case Begins
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September 10, 2026
Richard Garnett of Notre Dame University Law School, who filed an amicus brief in support of the state with Georgtown Law’s Stephanie Hall Barclay, said it would be a mistake and an oversimplification to say it’s an easy case for the plaintiffs. He called their argument “a stretch.”
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Vatican News
Within Your Gates, Jerusalem
September 09, 2026
“Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” is born, a new interdisciplinary forum promoted by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and developed in collaboration with the academic center of the University of Notre Dame. “Each of us felt that something in our souls had died. Cardinal Pizzaballa’s invitation was, first and foremost, to listen deeply and compassionately to others, without an attitude of moral superiority, but in order to learn from them,” explains Daniel Schwake, Director of Notre Dame Jerusalem and of the Advisory Committee of Within Your Gates.
USA Today
Brett Kavanaugh was at the White House on 9/11. It changed his life.
September 09, 2026
Kavanaugh will be speaking about his experience for a panel discussion at the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 11 in honor of the 25th anniversary.
National Catholic Register
Catholics, Can We Discuss the ‘Nod of Peace’?
September 08, 2026
Tim O’Malley, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, told the Register that in the U.S. bishops thought handshaking would be most consistent with our local customs.
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
Americas Quarterly
Support for Democracy—but also Strongmen—Is Rising in Latin America
September 08, 2026
This finding comes from the 2026 Pulse of Democracy, published this month by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
The Independent
OPINION | Company ordered to pay $5.6 million after breaking little-known driving law
September 08, 2026
Richard Marcantonio is an Assistant Professor of Environment, Peace, and Global Affairs at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
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Vatican News
‘Within Your Gates’ forum explores Jerusalem’s vocation to reconciliation and peace
September 07, 2026
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem launches “Within Your Gates,” an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together scholars and practitioners from different faith traditions and disciplines to reflect on the Holy City’s universal mission. The initiative has been developed in partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s academic centre in Jerusalem and will bring together scholars and practitioners from different faith traditions and academic disciplines. The forum will be led by Dr Daniel Schwake and builds on more than three years of cooperation with the University of Notre Dame’s academic centre in Jerusalem and other colleagues from the university.
International Business Times
International Business Times: Strait of Hormuz remains in ‘deadly stalemate’ as Iranian attacks continue six months into war
September 06, 2026
Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on conflict in the strait, said the current standoff reflects a rough balance of power between the two sides, neither of which has been able to fully impose its will on the waterway.
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Political Science
The New York Times
Iran’s Attacks Keep the Strait of Hormuz in a Lethal Stalemate
September 06, 2026
“The strait is neither fully closed nor fully opened,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on conflict in the waterway. “Iran can’t close it completely, and the U.S. can’t open it completely.”
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Political Science
Forbes
21 Elite Colleges Where Middle Class Students Go For Free
September 05, 2026
Beginning in the current 2026–27 academic year, Notre Dame is covering the full cost of tuition for families with annual incomes below $150,000 and half the cost of tuition for families with annual incomes below $200,000, with typical assets.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest is slated for demolition
September 05, 2026
Gary and the University of Notre Dame’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative then came up with a vision in 2025 to use the church’s bell tower for a proposed City Renaissance Park — part of a larger strategic plan to revive Downtown Gary.
Christianity Today
The Questions ChatGPT Can’t Answer
September 04, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, a Catholic philosopher at the University of Notre Dame who often meets with AI leaders and developers, said many workers in the industry “talk very flippantly” about job displacement and AI being able to do work faster and cheaper.
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Department of Philosophy
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg Law: Ballroom & Special DC Grand Jury
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September 03, 2026
International law expert Mary Ellen O’Connell discusses the war in Iran. June Grasso hosts.
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Notre Dame Law School