IBS News

This article was originally published in CU Boulder Today. You can view the original article here.) 

By: Lisa Marshall

With record high temperatures scorching the Southwest this week, farmers were quickly reminded of the severe droughts that threatened their crops and livelihood in recent years. How will they manage increasingly scarce water when drought comes again? A new CU Boulder-led study suggests that self-imposed well-pumping fees can play an important role, incentivizing farmers to slash use by a third, plant less thirsty crops and water more efficiently.

When we talk about groundwater crises arising all over the world, the knee-jerk reaction among policymakers is often
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An article co-authored by IBS faculty member Anand Sokhey was featured recently in the Washington Post blog, the Monkey Cage. The article is entitlted "How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches" and it can be found in it's entirety here. 

Here is an excerpt from the article: 

The 2016 presidential contest highlighted just how deeply divided the United States is over both politics and religion. The vast majority of white evangelicals (81 percent) voted for Trump. A
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This is an exerpt from a New York Times article. A link to the full article can be found at the end. 

Deconstructing the 'Ferguson Effect"

By Shaila Dewan

It was a narrative that resonated with law-and-order advocates after the long August of 2014, when unrest followed the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The police, vilified and facing a hostile public, were unable to do their jobs, leaving criminals to run amok. It was called the Ferguson effect.

Though based on thin evidence and met with fierce rebuttals, the theory keeps coming up. This month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said
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