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Newsweek
April 16, 2026
"This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Roger Alford, Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and former principal deputy assistant attorney general, said in a statement sent to Newsweek.
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The New York Times
April 16, 2026
“Iran has limited capability to execute its threats in the Persian Gulf, and really limited capability in the Red Sea,” said Eugene Gholz, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on military threats in the Strait of Hormuz. He said the threat meant “some, but not much.”
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The New York Times
April 16, 2026
Roger Alford, who was ousted last year as the top deputy in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and later criticized Live Nation for hiring people connected to the Trump administration to press its case, called the verdict a “major missed opportunity” for the federal government. “They had victory in their grasp and then they just walked away from it,” he said. “To the extent the Department of Justice is not going to exercise its responsibility to enforce the antitrust laws, we now have confidence that the state attorneys general and the private bar will pick up the baton.”
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Variety
April 16, 2026
The settlement allegedly resulted in the firing of Slater’s top aides, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford and Deputy Assistant Attorney William Rinner, both of whom objected to the settlement. After his firing, Mr. Alford specifically warned that “Live Nation and Ticketmaster have paid a bevy of cozy MAGA friends to roam the halls of the [Antitrust Division] in defense of their monopoly abuses.”
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The Wall Street Journal
April 16, 2026
“It is a major affordability win for the consumer and just a huge missed opportunity for the Department of Justice, which settled on the cheap in the manner that they did,” said Roger Alford, a former senior Justice Department official who has said lobbyists wield too much influence over how the Trump administration resolves antitrust cases.
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The Hill
April 16, 2026
One of the ex-officials, Roger Alford, called Wednesday’s decision a “massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Alford said in a statement.
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The New York Times
April 15, 2026
“It hardly constitutes a promise to protect non-Iranian shipping, which is likely the problem that the commercial companies and ship masters want solved,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
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EWTN
April 15, 2026
Co-hosted by CUA始s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, along with the University of Notre Dame始s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, the conference included a video address by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighting Catholics' presence and influence on the nation.
BBC News
April 15, 2026
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of American studies and history and director of the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, discusses President Donald Trump's criticism of Pope Leo XIV with BBC News.
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USA Today
April 15, 2026
"There's never been anything this public, this personal or this partisan," David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution, told USA TODAY in an interview.
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Religion News Service
April 14, 2026
“I find this trip could not have come at a better time,” said the Rev. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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The New York Times
April 14, 2026
“Where you’re from matters,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor who specializes in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. “He’s got friends, he’s got siblings in the United States. He understands American politics. He knows Republicans and Democrats.”
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National Catholic Reporter
April 14, 2026
OPINION | By Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of history and director of the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame and author of “A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.”
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NPR
April 14, 2026
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Father Emmanuel Katongole, a priest and professor of theology at University of Notre Dame, about the significance of Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa this week.
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Associated Press
April 14, 2026
“This is unprecedented criticism of a Pope from a US president,” David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via email. Looking far back into world history, Trump’s attempt to “strong-arm Pope Leo” isn’t anything new, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American 91视频 and History at Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Reporter
Audio
April 13, 2026
On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with my friend David Cortright, a leading scholar on war, peace and nonviolent resistance. He is a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Einaudi Center for International 91视频 and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Washington Post
April 11, 2026
“A year ago, I would not have told you that Anthropic is a company that cares about religious ethics,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame who participated in the gatherings. “That’s changed.”
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Time
April 10, 2026
Iran’s direct ability to act in the region is limited, notes Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
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OSV News
April 10, 2026
Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump called off his threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” and agreed to a two-week ceasefire, OSV News spoke with conflict resolution scholar Laurie Nathan of the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频.
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National Catholic Reporter
April 08, 2026
OPINION | By Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. A priest ordained by the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, he is the co-founder and president of the Bethany Land Institute, a residential training program in integral ecology in rural Uganda.
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