Cutting off stimulus checks to Americans earning over $75,000 could be wise, new data suggests (commentary by John Friedman)
January 27, 2021 Washington Post
Strong Leaders
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Policy, Economic Experts Weigh in on U.S. Capitol Attack
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A Renewed Commitment to Graduate Education
In The News
Covid-19: C.D.C. Says Its Safe to Reopen Schools, With Precautions (commentary by Emily Oster)
January 27, 2021 New York Times
From Del's to Hasbro, RI institutions are sharing the Bernie mittens meme (commentary by Michael Kennedy)
January 26, 2021 Providence Journal
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Policy, Economic Experts Weigh in on U.S. Capitol Attack
January 7, 2021
Call It an Emergency: The Next President’s Guide to Addressing Climate Change
November 4, 2020
Watson Election 2020
September 2, 2020
Research Briefs
Peacekeeping, Policing, and the Rule of Law after Civil War
November 30, 2020
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Events
January 27
Feminist Mobilizations at the time of COVID-19: Experiences from the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
January 29
Ashish Jha — COVID-19 in South Asia
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
February 3
Ijlal Naqvi — Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Student Experience
CHRHS Partners with SCIJ
January 25, 2021
Webcasts
The Biden Administration: What to Expect
January 12, 2021
Dynamics of American Democracy ─ Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance
December 7, 2020
Book Talk with Thea Riofrancos — Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
December 3, 2020
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