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150 scientists, including CSUSB’s Stuart Sumida, defend Grand Staircase-Escalante protections
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah)
May 15, 2026
More than 150 scientists, researchers and educators – including Stuart Sumida, CSUSB professor biology and president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology – representing 32 states and 13 different scientific organizations sent a letter to federal officials Thursday defending protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Why Losing Stephen Colbert's Show Matters | 'Right Now With Perry Bacon'
The New Republic/Substack
May 20, 2026
Meredith Conroy, CSUSB professor of political science, was interviewed on the program “Right Now with Perry Bacon” to discuss why CBS’ cancellation of the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” matters in the context of political comedy and commentary. The show, which began with David Letterman in 1993, followed by Colbert in 2015, ended its run on May 21.

How did we get here (and where are we going) with late-night TV?
Gender Gap/Substack
May 22, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science) wrote on what political science research says the about the cancellation of the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as a follow-up to her discussion with Perry Bacon on the subject and where late night TV could be headed.

Commentary: The truth is out there about UFOs
Orlando Sentinel (Florida)
May 16, 2026
With UFOs and speculation of extraterrestrial life back in the news, a book co-authored by Mark T. Clark (national security studies, emeritus) was highlighted in an opinion column by Gregory J. Rummo, an assistant professor of chemistry at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men,” written by Clark, Hugh Ross and Kenneth R. Samples, was first published in 2002.

Social media, manifesto of San Diego mosque shooters rooted in white nationalism
Los Angeles Times
May 20, 2026
Brian Levin, chair of California’s Commission on Hate, said the attack may reflect a contagion spreading among extremist youths. Levin, a former New York police officer who founded Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Extremism, said, like their predecessors, the shooters are using writings — and possibly video — to get their message out. 
The gunmen who killed three people at the San Diego Islamic Center left behind a 75-page document that preached hate, anti-Islam ideology and antisemitism and promoted violence and chaos, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told The Times.

The teens who attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego were latest to cite prior atrocities
The Associated Press
May 20, 2026
Brian Levin, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, was one of the experts interviewed about the online postings of the two teens suspected of the May 18 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego.
Levin noted that while white supremacist writings dating to the 1970s offered a narrative blueprint for decentralized terror attacks, neo-Nazis decades ago favored an approach sometimes called the “propaganda of the deed” – the attack on its own was supposed to inspire copycats, even without written explanations.

San Diego Islamic Center shooting one day later
KPBS (San Diego)
May 19, 2026 
Brian Levin, founder, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was on the program “Midday Edition Tuesday” to discuss the current state of online hate and Islamophobia.

How the Monday attack  at Islamic Center of San Diego is reverberating locally
LAist
May 19, 2026
Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino, was one of the panelists on a segment on the fatal shooting at a mosque in San Diego on May 18. The discussion on the program “Air Talk” focused on Los Angeles-area response to the incident.

‘Don’t let anything slide’ — California commissioners urge reporting hate
The Los Angeles Post
May 18, 2026
Brian Levin, chair of the California Commission on the State of Hate and founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, shared at recent commission meeting what he called preliminary FBI data “hot off the press.” While hate incidents in 2024 were 1.5% lower than a spike of 11,862 incidents the previous year, hate crimes in this decade overall are running at the highest levels in 34 years, since the FBI began collecting data.

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