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The ‘AI race’ against China is a dangerous, dishonest narrative
Common Dreams
Oct. 28, 2026
Jeremy Murray (history), with Nicholas Rabb (postdoctoral researcher, San Francisco State), wrote an opinion column on the “AI hype (that) has merged with ‘China threat’ hysteria, yielding disingenuous rhetoric that powers the current unregulated, breakneck AI buildout.” 
They wrote, in part, “In reality, mounting evidence seems to indicate that the ‘China threat’ is nothing more than a performative manipulation, wielded by tech CEOs and White House officials to justify their deeply unpopular AI program. The real threat, in Americans’ eyes, seems to be coming from the inside, as huge majorities remain concerned over data centers encroaching on their communities, AI-driven job loss, and other harms borne from the unregulated technology.”

Trump's endorsees won 96% of their primaries in 2026
FiftyPlusOne
Oct. 28, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science) and journalist Tia Yang wrote an article on the effect of President Donald Trump’s candidate endorsements from the primary elections through the general election in November.
They wrote: “To better understand Trump’s endorsement record and what it tells us about his influence within the Republican Party, we analyzed his endorsements across every U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial primary race in 2026. Building on several years of work tracking endorsements by Trump and other key political figures at FiveThirtyEight, we examined not just Trump’s win rate this year, but what kinds of races he weighed in on and where his endorsees won and lost.” 

CSUSB alumna, adjunct faculty member is guest speaker at Redlands American Association of University Women Nov. 7 meeting
The Sun/Redlands Daily Facts/The Press-Enterprise
Oct. 27, 2026
CSUSB alumna Cherina Betters will be the guest speaker when the Redlands branch of the American Association of University Women meets on Nov. 7. Betters is the chief of equity and access for the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools and board clerk for the San Bernardino Community College District, along with being an adjunct professor at CSUSB’s Watson College of Education. 

Whom and when to deport and punish: Experimental evidence on Americans' attitudes toward immigrants in the criminal legal system
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Sishi Wu (criminal justice), with Luzi Shi (University of Rhode Island, criminal justice), published a study that examined Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants in the criminal legal system. Their findings “suggest that punishment decisions involving immigrants are shaped in part by concerns about undocumented status, even when individuals are formally processed through the criminal legal system.”

Protracted Conflict and Crisis Escalation
International Crisis Behavior Project
Luba Levin-Banchik (political science) wrote a chapter for the book, “A Century of International Crisis Behavior,” that examined “the impact and contributions of the (International Crisis Behavior) project by focusing on two key interrelated phenomena – protracted conflicts and crisis escalation. It surveys the extensive literature on protracted conflicts and crisis Page 150 → escalation that scholars have produced using ICB data since the publication of A Study of Crisis.”

No constituency for universal basic income? Evidence from seven Latin American countries
Journal of Social Policy
Fabián A. Borges (political science), with Juliana Martinez (University of Costa Rica) and Merike Blofield (Universitat Hamburg), published a study examined the public support for a universal basic income (UBI). “Using original survey data from seven countries, we find that fewer than 10 per cent of respondents support both the universality and unconditionality that define UBI,” according to the abstract. “Notably, support for UBI is not significantly shaped by socio-economic status or left-right orientation, and current recipients of targeted transfers are no more likely than others to favour UBI. In contrast, support for targeted programmes – particularly for the extreme poor – is robust and explained by income, education and ideology, consistent with classic self-interest models.”

Valence-congruent priming during sequential face perception across identity and exposure manipulation
Acta Psychologica
Nicolas Burnet (psychology) led a team of researchers who published a study on emotional evaluations of faces. From the abstract: “Previous research has suggested that sequential emotional evaluations may produce either assimilation or contrast effects depending on factors such as perceptual similarity and stimulus exposure duration. The present study examined how preceding emotional faces influence evaluations of neutral faces as a function of identity similarity and presentation duration.”

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