June 22, 2018 The Providence Journal
Reviewer Tim Norton says Faculty Fellow David Kertzer's new book, The Pope Who Would Be King, is an "important contribution in understanding the many ways that the Catholic Church, cloaked with unquestioned power in the Papal States of Europe, conspired to keep it."
June 20, 2018 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Sociologist Michael Kennedy joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss the Singapore Summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and raise questions about the state of moral leadership in America.
June 18, 2018 Radio Open Source
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman joins WBUR's Radio Open Source to discuss President Trump's summit meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
June 13, 2018 The Washington Post
An opinion piece co-written by Eric Patashnik, argues that the law’s political vulnerabilities and Republican electoral dynamics drive conservative efforts to uproot it and yet conservatives are unlikely to be able to repeal it.
June 6, 2018 Worker's World
A May 2017 report from the Costs of War Project indicated that military spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money would have if it had been invested in other sectors, such as clean energy, health care and education.
June 6, 2018 The Atlantic
As sanctions restrict the legal flow of goods, people grow accustomed to the black market. In a 2005 study, Professor Peter Andreas noted that sanctions often breed "a higher level of public tolerance for lawbreaking and an undermined respect for the rule of law."
June 4, 2018 972 Magazine
Professor Ashutosh Varshney compares his studies of villages in the Gujarat state of India, where Muslims and Hindus coexist more harmoniously than in other parts of the country, to that of Galilee, where Jews and Arabs interact daily, primarly economically.
June 4, 2018 Star2
Economist Emily Oster recently published a new book on why much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrong and what expecting mothers really need to know.
June 4, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Repressive rule was imposed on Nicaragua slowly, one outrage at a time. For more than a decade Nicaraguans grumbled but did not act. This spring they finally erupted."
May 30, 2018 The American Interest
Research by Professor Jeff Colgan is cited in an article about the correlation between high oil prices and international conflict. "He also notes that oil-producers are 50 percent more likely to engage in conflict than non-oil producers."
May 29, 2018 Persia Digest
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman joined Persia Digest to discuss the new US strategy on Iran and the future of the Iran nuclear deal, saying, "No one concluding an agreement with the American authorities can now be sure that their successors in office will honor their undertakings."
May 29, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "They have been slow to accept the new reality: that Washington is acting against their continent’s interests. If Europe is to remain a center of world power, it will have to rise from its geopolitical slumber and defend itself."
May 25, 2018 International Medical Corps
Adam Levine, Director of the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, speaks to International Medical Corps about the fight against Ebola.
May 25, 2018 Daily Mail
Economist Emily Oster investigated the statistics, or lack thereof, behind some general wisdom about what women should and shouldn't do during pregnancy.
May 25, 2018 CNN
William Hartung, Cost War Project contributor, mentions that the Project estimates all post-9/11 wars have cost us $5.6 trillion and counting, more than 100 times the Bush administration's initial claims.
May 23, 2018
Catherine Lutz, co-director of the Watson Institute’s Costs of War project, responds to President Trump’s repeated claim that the United States "has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East."
May 23, 2018 Marketplace
Economist John Friedman said that while attending college is an "incredible boost to upward mobility," the path to higher education can have pitfalls for lower-income and minority students, who often leave college saddled with unsustainable debt after earning a degree that may not boost their income or upward mobility.
May 17, 2018 The Fiscal Times
This article contrasts the Stimson Center figures with the Watson Institute's, which estimates that all war-related spending since 9/11, coupled with future obligations, totals $5.6 trillion.
May 16, 2018 RT
In the new RT documentary, Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer, examines the rationale and impact of Washington's international interventions, from Hawaii to Libya.
May 16, 2018 Providence Journal
Professor Nina Tannenwald accused President Trump of "working to inflame the Palestinians," labeling him "an arsonist" and saying that "moving the embassy is a way of setting fire to the Middle East."