Our distinguished McCourt faculty and research fellows are regularly sought by national and international media outlets as authoritative voices on today’s most critical policy challenges.
This engagement reflects McCourt’s core mission: ensuring evidence-based research informs public understanding and policy decisions. When complex issues demand expert analysis, media organizations consistently turn to our faculty for the credible, nuanced perspectives that advance democratic dialogue and informed decision-making.
Rachel Schmidt, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a CNBC article on Medicare’s launching of a program that bypasses federal law to provide millions of eligible older Americans with coverage for weight loss drugs.
June 30, 2026
Marguerite Roza, director of Edunomics Lab, explains in a North Jersery.com article that widespread fiscal pressure on school districts nationwide is being driven by the expiration of temporary federal COVID relief funds, rising health insurance costs and a higher rate of special education identification.
June 29, 2026
Carrie Graham, director of the Medicare Policy Initiative at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a Washington Post article on how private Medicare Advantage plans maximize profits by commonly denying coverage, while simultaneously encouraging patients to fight these denials.
June 29, 2026
Angela Antonelli, executive director of the Center for Retirement Initiatives, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal and MSN article on how making improvements in retirement savings makes workers more likely to save.
June 27, 2026
Jack Hoadley, research professor emeritus at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article on why providers have stopped using consent waivers, explaining that providers realized they were winning such a high percentage of cases in the IDR process that they could do better for themselves and their patients by not offering the waiver.
June 25, 2026
Elisabeth Wright Burak, senior fellow at McCourt’s Center for Children and Families, published a piece in The Miami Times detailing how a lack of medical care creates long-term consequences for children.
June 24, 2026
Harry J. Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, was featured in a Forbes article on the impacts of AI within the workforce.
June 23, 2026
Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council and executive director of the Economic Dignity Lab, wrote an op-ed for the Financial Times on the need to move toward pro-worker AI-policies prior to increased AI-induced job losses. The piece offers a starter proposal for employers: a Redeployment Tax Credit to encourage redeployment and augmentation over mass layoffs.
June 17, 2026
R. Daniel Kelemen, associate dean for faculty and McCourt chair, co-wrote an article for Foreign Affairs on how electoral autocracies can be peacefully overturned when mainstream center-right establishments refuse to tolerate far-right populists and instead unite with broad democratic oppositions.
June 15, 2026
Ning Leng, assistant professor at the McCourt School, wrote for Foreign Affairs on how China’s top-down authoritarian system traps the country in a cycle of enormous economic waste.
June 12, 2026
Peter W. Cookson, Jr., adjunct professor at the McCourt School, wrote an article for American Educator on the urgent need to revitalize civic education to combat global authoritarianism and democratic backsliding as America marks its 250th anniversary.
Summer 2026 Issue
Renée DiResta, associate research professor at McCourt’s Massive Data Institute and Tech & Public Policy Center, was quoted in a CBC News article on Meta’s incentivizing audience manipulation through account impersonation and monetization practices.
June 8th, 2026
Elizabeth Burak, senior research fellow at the Center for Children and Families, was interviewed for an NPR News report on the increase in uninsured young children and the risks missing coverage might cause.
June 1st, 2026
Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, co-wrote an opinion piece for The Hill on the need to incorporate outcome-based repayment models for skilled worker training programs.
May 30th, 2026
Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, was quoted in an ABC News article on reasons for the slowdown of hiring new college graduates.
May 28th, 2026
Marguerite Roza, research professor and Director of Edunomics Lab, was quoted in a Boston Globe article on the adverse effects of teachers unions fighting for better pay and benefits.
May 25th, 2026
Thomas Toch, director of FutureEd, was quoted in an ABC News article on the effectiveness of smartphone bans within K-12 schools.
May 20th, 2026
Amy Killelea, assistant research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a CBS News article on the rise of enrollment in more affordable, alternative health plans which do not meet federal comprehensive coverage requirements.
May 20th, 2026
Sabrina Corlette, research professor and founder of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a U.S. News article on the declining enrollment in the Affordable Care Act.
May 20th, 2026
Maria Cancian, Professor and Former Dean, was quoted in a New York Times article on her research into the number of family separations caused by deportations.
May 18th, 2026
Andy Schneider, research professor at the Center for Children and Families, was quoted in a CNN article on the Trump administration’s withholding of medicare payments to California.
May 13th, 2026
Thessalia Merivaki, associate professor, was quoted in a Southern Maryland Chronicle article on the use of AI in political campaigns.
May 11th, 2026
Marguerite Roza, research professor and Director of Edunomics Lab, was quoted in a Straits Times article on why fewer children are attending K-12 schools.
May 11th, 2026
Jeff Strohl, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, was quoted in an Irish Times article on the labor market losses resulting from AI workplace automation.
May 10th, 2026
Sabrina Corlette, research professor and founder of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in an article by The Hill on the impact of GOP-controlled Congress’s ending of enhanced subsidies to Obamacare, with millions of Americans are dropping coverage.
May 10th, 2026
Tricia Brooks, research professor at the Center for Children and Families, was quoted in a Politico article on tactics to make the upcoming implementation of work requirements to receive Medicaid especially strict and drastically reduce the number of people covered.
May 5th, 2026
Joan Alker, executive director and co-founder of the Center for Children and Families (CCF), was quoted in a Washington Post article on declining enrollment in KidCare, Florida’s health insurance program for children in low-income families.
April 25th, 2026
Renée DiResta, associate research professor at McCourt’s Massive Data Institute and Tech & Public Policy Center, was quoted in a New York Times article on Iran’s circulating of AI propaganda videos.
April 24th, 2026
Jeff Strohl, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, was quoted in a Higher Ed Dive article on offering college students workforce preparation in the face of AI.
April 16th, 2026
R. Daniel Kelemen, associate dean for faculty and McCourt chair, was interviewed for PBS News Hour on what the election of a new prime minister means for Hungary.
April 10th, 2026
Tricia Brooks, research professor at the Center for Children and Families, was quoted in a CBS News article on staffing cuts to states’ social services agencies and the stress that those positions cause.
April 9th, 2026
Renée DiResta, associate research professor at McCourt’s Massive Data Institute and Tech & Public Policy programs, published an opinion piece on propaganda’s foray into the world of viral AI-generated videos for TIME Ideas.
April 2nd, 2026
Anne Dwyer, professor at McCourt’s Center for Children and Families, was quoted in a WWNO NPR article on how changes in legislation might impact education access.
March 30, 2026
Michael Bailey, Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government, was quoted in a NYTimes Op-Ed on affective polarization and political moderation.
March 24, 2026
Tara Moon, policy analyst at FutureEd, was quoted by The Guardian in an article on the staffing cuts that follow cuts to academic programs in K-12 schools.
February 16, 2026
Jonathan Ladd, associate professor, was quoted in a CBC News article on what to expect in President Trump’s 2026 state of the union address.
February 24, 2026
Renée DiResta, associate research professor at McCourt’s Massive Data Institute and Tech and Public Policy programs, was in conversation with Maria Ressa and Prince Harry on combating disinformation for Time Magazine’s Time 100 Talks.
February 16, 2026
Justin Giovannelli, associate research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms was quoted in an NPR article on Nevada residents potentially losing health coverage despite the move to a public-option.
February 18, 2026
Maria Cancian, professor and former dean of the McCourt School, wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek on parent-child separations from recent immigration enforcement.
February 17, 2026
Sabrina Corlette, McCourt School research professor and founder of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, was quoted in a USA Today article on the effects to health insurance enrollment after the elimination of enhanced tax credits.
February 4, 2026
