Faculty Voices

On Sept. 27, 2023, seven Republican candidates looking to become the leading challenger to the absent GOP front-runner Donald Trump debated. Listening in for The Conversation were economists Ryan Herzog of Gonzaga University and University of Tennessee's Celeste K. Carruthers. Here are their main takeaways from the debate.

Federal Reserve policymakers have targeted a "soft landing" for the U.S. economy since beginning their effort a year ago to tame runaway inflation by hiking interest rates.

On Sept. 3, 1973, a fire swept through the baghouse of the Bunker Hill mine in Idaho's Silver Valley. The building was designed to filter pollutants produced by smelting, the melting of rocks that separates metal from its ore. The gases produced in this process carried poisons, including lead.

The heat dome that descended upon the Pacific Northwest in late June 2021 met a population radically unprepared for it.

The Federal Reserve's decision to hold rates steady signals that central bankers believe it is time to hit pause, at least temporarily, on their aggressive campaign to tame runaway inflation. The latest data, not to mention several other factors, however, suggests it's time for a full stop.

In his forthcoming book, "Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising," Jeremiah Favara, a communication scholar at Gonzaga University, examines military recruitment ads published in three commercial magazines between 1973 - when the federal government ended the military draft - and 2016.

If 1% of COVID-19 cases result in death, does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying if you catch it? A mathematician explains the difference between a population statistic and your personal risk.

Stress is stopping students from enrolling in and staying in college. According to a recent survey of over 12,000 adults in the U.S., 63% of those 18 to 24 who had never attended college said emotional stress is one of the biggest reasons why they are not currently enrolled.

Hospitals and emergency services in the Los Angeles region are clearly in crisis as COVID-19 cases surge, yet state and county officials have yet to formally make what is known as a declaration of crisis standards of care.

The introspective former peanut farmer pledged a new era of honesty and forthrightness at home and abroad, a promise that resonated with voters eager for change following the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War. His presidency, however, lasted only one term before Ronald Reagan defeated him. Since then, scholars have debated - and often maligned - Carter's legacy, especially his foreign policy efforts that revolved around human rights.