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phys.org
April 23, 2026
Using three surveys of more than 45,000 voting-age Americans, the researchers found that about half of the U.S. population expresses an attitude of democratic neutrality—or an "unwillingness to support or oppose policies or practices that undermine democracy," explained Matthew E.K. Hall, lead author of the study recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
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Political Science
The New York Times
April 23, 2026
Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was more likely to provoke and could even appear energized by conflict. Francis was “totally comfortable being in uncomfortable situations,” said David M. Lantigua, an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. “I don’t think that Leo shares that kind of temperament.”
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Theology
The Economist
April 23, 2026
If Democrats win the House by a dozen or so seats with wide margins across several states, there is not much to do but “throw a tantrum”, says Derek Muller, an expert in election law at the University of Notre Dame.
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OSV News
April 22, 2026
Daniel Philpott, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, emphasized the departure from traditional diplomatic relations between heads of state.
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America
April 22, 2026
This piece includes commentary from both Daniel Philpott, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and Gerard F. Powers, director of Catholic Peacebuilding 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
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Reuters
April 22, 2026
"By choosing a hardware leader in John Ternus, Apple may be signaling that it still believes the future of AI will run through tightly integrated devices, not just software," said Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza 鈥婥ollege of Business. "That could be smart, but it also raises a deeper risk: the very strengths that made Apple dominant — their discipline, polish, and control — could become constraints if the 鈥媙ext era rewards openness and faster iteration. That rapid innovation is where Apple started, and maybe that’s where the company needs to return."ND Experts
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The Christian Science Monitor
April 21, 2026
“The Iran war underscores how some of the elements of modern military power have changed very dramatically, revealing a landscape where new technologies – just think of drones here – are favoring the defensive and weaker power in a major way,” says Michael Desch, director of the O’Brien Notre Dame International Security Center.
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Political Science
The Washington Post
April 21, 2026
There are thousands of variations of these chemicals, but all contain a chain of carbon and fluorine that generates “an extremely strong bond,” said Graham Peaslee, a professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Notre Dame. “Once they’re made, and they’re all man-made, they last in the environment forever,” he said.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
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The Washington Post
April 21, 2026
There are thousands of variations of these chemicals, but all contain a chain of carbon and fluorine that generates “an extremely strong bond,” said Graham Peaslee, a professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Notre Dame.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
April 21, 2026
This is not the first time that a group has faced off with an attorney general over accusations of misleading information about nonprofit donations, says Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame who researches and writes about attorney general enforcement of charity laws. “I’m having a strong sense of déjà vu because in 2017, there was actually a lawsuit against PayPal, one of the companies listed,” Mayer says.ND Experts
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BBC News
April 21, 2026
Timothy Hubbard, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, said Cook's era of Apple turned it into a company that was "the best at refining, scaling and defending an extraordinarily powerful system. The real question now is whether that same organisation can pivot toward exploration, where success depends on speed, uncertainty and a greater willingness to experiment," he said.
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CNBC
April 21, 2026
“By choosing a hardware leader in John Ternus, Apple may be signaling that it still believes the future of AI will run through tightly integrated devices, not just software,” said Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mendoza College of Business
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BBC News
April 20, 2026
When the American anthropologist Lee Gettler, then an undergrad student, heard about these findings in the early 2000s, he was hooked. "I asked [my lecturer] whether anyone was studying these questions in human fathers, and the answer at that point was largely no", says Gettler, now the director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Anthropology
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The New York Times
April 20, 2026
Richard Garnett, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and director of the law school’s Program on Church, State and Society, said the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty did not permit governments to penalize religious schools, or the parents who chose them, by excluding them from education-funding programs. Colorado has tried to evade recent Supreme Court rulings, he said in a statement, “by imposing requirements that religious schools abandon various policies that reflect their religious character.”
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Associated Press
April 20, 2026
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, said Leo has consistently operated “on a higher plane” but American Catholics are used to church discussion of morality in the context of sexuality, gender and abortion, and it’s jarring to process foreign policy through a moral lens. “So JD Vance can say the pope should stick to morality,” she said, “but war and peace are ancient moral issues.”
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The Washington Post
April 20, 2026
As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller notes, this puts 270 plausibly within reach for the first time. “If Michigan (15), Pennsylvania (19), Wisconsin (10), and Nevada (6) all tip toward Democratic trifectas” — meaning Democratic control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature — “that’s 50 EVs,” he observes. If each of those states ratified the NPVIC, it would control an Electoral College majority — 272 votes out of 538 — and the compact, by its own terms, would go into effect.
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CBS News
April 16, 2026
Now, a judge could eventually reject the settlement in light of the ruling on the states' complaint, according to Roger Alford, a professor at the Notre Dame Law 91视频.
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Rolling Stone
April 16, 2026
Roger Alford, a law professor at Notre Dame and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, tells Rolling Stone, “After decades of trying to address Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s abuse of monopoly power, we hope that those abuses will now end.”
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NPR
April 16, 2026
Notre Dame law professor Roger Alford commended the states for seeing the antitrust trial through. "This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ," Alford wrote. "The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage."
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Bloomberg
April 16, 2026
“This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ,” said Roger Alford, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who was the Trump administration’s No. 2 antitrust official until he was fired last summer. “The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage.”
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