JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know
The New York Times 09-16-206
“The British prime minister may not be the ideal Catholic. But he ought to be seen as a helpful corrective to an American Catholicism that often sees the faith less as a way of life and more as an avenue to an argument. Andy Burnham can always work on his spiritual life. So can we,” wrote David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
Anthropic reports it blocked potential bioweapons research
USA Today 09-10-2026
Doni Bloomfield, a Fordham law professor who focuses on AI and biosecurity, told USA TODAY that he found the use cases linked to military complexes most interesting, though “it’s not clear how much the models that were accessed at their best, could have even done. But I think it is notable that this work is happening.”
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Chanel Gets ‘Faked’ Out by Tom Sachs
WWD 09-10-2026
Fashion has what some brands view “as a parody problem,” according to Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School. “Their logos and iconic styles are so recognizable and the industry itself is so culturally significant that artists can find fashion houses’ intellectual property almost irresistible, when it comes to making a statement — or making a buck,” she said.
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Report: USPS failed to properly handle some ballots during primaries this year
MS NOW 09-10-2026
“”Had we funded the USPS the way we have in the past, we wouldn’t have folks operating in a skeleton crew in certain postal services. We would have time for adequate training, and we would have deeper and more robust conversations within the U.S. Postal Service, because these are dedicated public servants who actually work to make sure our mail gets to us six days a week — and many postal services work well beyond that,” said Christina Greer, professor at Fordham University.
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Firing Squads Are Back
Commonweal Magazine 09-14-2026
The chair, says Fordham University’s Deborah Denno, the country’s leading scholar of execution methods, was supposed to be a more humane alternative. “People were really horrified by hangings,” she says. “They were slow, they were torturous, and the feeling was, this isn’t bringing out the best in society.” Legislators feared that the spectacular brutality of hangings would turn public sentiment against the death penalty itself. “That’s been an ongoing theme,” says Denno: the search for a “humane” method of execution to make capital punishment broadly acceptable.
Steven Kolb’s CFDA Leave Sparks Debate, Designers and Legal Expert Weigh In on PETA Protest Incident
WWD 09-16-2026
Susan Scafidi, professor of law at Fordham Law School and the founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute, said, “He [Kolb] apologized. It is serious. But he also has 20 years at the CFDA of dealing with very difficult individuals and situations. So I’m sure they will have a serious conversation as they clearly have, and will take everything into account.”
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Debate over Mamdani’s 9/11 memorial attendance reveals persistent bias 25 years later
The Grio 09-11-2026
Fordham University professor and senior policy fellow at Brooklyn Org, Christina Greer underlined how these biases have and continue to impact Black communities. “The hyper-surveillance of Muslim communities, of which many Black people are members, did not go away, and so now we see the vestiges of it in the hyper-surveillance of not just Black communities but immigrant communities, of which many Black people are also immigrants,” she told theGrio.
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MAHA Moms Built a Movement. MAGA Bros Have Taken It Over
Food & Environment Reporting Network 09-16-2026
MAHA, says Monika McDermott, a professor of political science at Fordham University, “fits with the MAGA movement’s vision of the role that men play and the roles that women play. And so, yeah, women are figureheads and can do things about the family, but the experts are still the masculine figures.”
99 DIY Moments That Are Pure Genius Or Downright Stupid (New Pics)
Bored Panda 09/11/2026
Most of these DiWHY projects may seem like failures. However, experts urge not to think of it that way. According to psychologist and Fordham University professor John Houtz, these mishaps can only lead to breakthroughs. “The creative individual thinks of failure as a new opportunity,” Houtz said. “‘Okay, why did I fail? What was wrong? Let me try to do something else. Let me go forward with it.’”
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