The recent attack on Atlanta’s computer system disrupted service in at least five of the city’s 13 departments. Civil workers were reduced to the pre-computer era of longhand.
Trevor Thrall op-eds that America’s track record of foreign intervention since 9/11 makes it clear that leaving Syria is easy to wish but hard to do. Read more in NY Daily News.
Frank Shafroth of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government op-eds about how municipalities are unprepared to respond to Ransomware attacks, and protective steps that can be taken in this new era of digital extortion. Read more in Governing.
During her testimony before the U.S. Helsinki Commission in late March, Schar School of Policy and Government professor Louise Shelley told members of Congress how the opioid epidemic in Europe differs from that in the United States.
Schar School professor Steven Pearlstein op-eds that the arrangement between Amazon and the Post Office is a great deal for both parties. Read more in the Washington Post.
A.C. Grayling, renowned British author, professor of philosophy and the Master of the New College of Humanities, London, was the guest speaker at the third event of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and International Affairs. Held on the evening of April 3, 2018 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., the event was hosted by General Michael V. Hayden, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, and attracted a full house of George Mason University faculty, staff, and students.
For Mark Rozell, dean of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, the distinctive characteristic of the school’s master’s programs in security studies is their academic breadth combined with practical applications.
Don’t believe everything the search consultants say, write Schar School of Policy and Government professors Judith Wilde and James H. Finkelstein, who say a cautious and contemplative approach to hiring Michigan State's next president is best. Read more in the Detroit Free Press.
Frank Shafroth of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government says state leaders are often unwilling to put up matching funds required for federal grants. Read more in WVTF (Virginia Public Radio).
A new alert from the Department of Homeland Security details actions by the Russian government targeting government installations inside the United States. “[E]ntities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors” are among those the Homeland Security and the FBI say have been victimized by “Russian government cyber actors.”