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Frank Church Institute in the Press

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The Frank Church Institute continues Senator Church’s legacy of insightful commentary on the important issues of the day. Below are recent articles that the Frank Church Institute authors have written or where we’ve been quoted.

Forty years ago, Frank Church tried to end emergency government
Chase Johnson, Idaho Statesman

Sen. Risch has unique chance to guide Trump on foreign policy
Steven Feldstein, The Hill

How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Repression (pdf)
How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Repression (read online)
Steven Feldstein, Journal of Democracy

Moral Failure in Libya
Steven Feldstein, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration

How to Grill Gina Haspel
Steven Feldstein and Rear Admiral John Hutson, Croooked

Armenia Rejects the ‘Politics of Eternity’
Chase Johnson, The Conversation

Who is John Bolton and What Does he Want?
Steven Feldstein, The Conversation

Rexit: Tillerson out, Pompeo in. The future of the State Department and CIA.
Steven Feldstein, KPCC’s AirTalk

Rethinking Antifa
Steven Feldstein, The Blue Review

Do Terrorist Trends in Africa Justify the U.S. Military’s Expansion?
Steven Feldstein, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Hybrid Repression Online and Offline in China: Foretelling the Human Rights Struggle to Come?
Steven Feldstein, National Endowment for Democracy’s Power 3.0 blog

After coup, will Zimbabwe see democracy or dictatorship?
Steven Feldstein, The Conversation

Humanize the refugee experience — and benefit us all, says Church Conference speaker
Mohamed Abubakr, The Idaho Statesman

Former Justice Jones on refugee crisis: ‘We have a lot of soul searching to do’
Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise, Spokesman-Review

Frank Church Conference: World seeing surge in civilian casualties of war
Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise, Spokesman-Review

Trump’s War on Terror
By Steven Feldstein and Saskia Brechenmacher, The National Interest

How U.S. Policies Are Worsening the Global Refugee Crisis
By Steven Feldstein, The Blue Review

New Data About Airstrikes During Trump’s First 10 Months in Office Should Sound Alarm Bells
By Steven Feldstein, Newsweek

Taking on Trump, Bob Corker sets a loud tone. What would Jim Risch be like in his place?
By Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman

Can Brownback Be the Credible Face of America’s Promotion of Religious Freedom?
By Steven Feldstein, World Politics Review

A question for our times: What would Frank Church do?
By Steven Feldstein, Idaho Statesman

Time is now to prepare for more cyberattacks on U.S. electoral system
By Chase Johnson, Idaho Statesman

Viewpoint: DACA decision, North Korean nuclear threat
Steven Feldstein appearance on KTVB

Viewpoint – New leader at Frank Church Institute
Steven Feldstein appearance on KTVB