December 11, 2019 WGBH
Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Neta Crawford, director of the Watson Institute’s Cost Of War Project discuss a blockbuster investigative series from The Washington Post involving the Bush and Obama administrations with WGBH host Jim Braude.
December 10, 2019 The Washington Post
This opinion piece by Professor of International Studies and Political Science Peter Andreas argues that Trump's plan to define Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations is ill-conceived and could have dire geopolitical consequences.
December 10, 2019 Scientific American
Deborah Gordon, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, provided commentary on the Spanish oil company Repsol SA's newly announced goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
December 10, 2019 The Boston Globe
In this letter to the editor, Professor of Social Science, Anthropology and Italian Studies David Kertzer responds to a previous editorial and argues that the amount of financial aid available — and not the preference for alumni children in admissions — is the biggest factor in a school's economic diversity.
December 10, 2019 The New York Times
Drawing on estimates and data from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Costs of War project, a team from the New York Times assessed how much the United States spent on different aspects of the war in Afghanistan and whether that spending achieved its aims.
December 9, 2019 The Indian Express
In this article, faculty member at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Ashutosh Varshney, provides an anaylsis on the recent political events in Maharashtra, India.
December 6, 2019 E&E News
Deborah Gordon, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs provided commentary for this story.
December 6, 2019 WPRI
Richard Arenberg, a visiting professor of the practice of political science, interviews on WPRI.
December 4, 2019 ABC6
Richard Arenberg, a visiting professor of the practice of political science, provided commentary for this story.
December 2, 2019 C-Span
Stephanie Savell, faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs discusses the Costs of War Project and U.S. military deployments around the world in this interview with C-Span.
December 2, 2019 Politico
Marc Dunkelman, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, wrote this article examining the history of New York's Penn Station and the role government played in the legacy of crowded commutes.
December 2, 2019 Los Angeles Times
Aileen Teague, postdoctoral research associate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, provided commentary in this article about Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's new "hugs, not bullets" policies on the drug war and violence plaguing Mexico.
December 2, 2019 The Daily Beast
This piece discusses Stephen Kinzer's new book, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, which examines the career of Sidney Gottlieb - the scientist who ran the CIA's damaging and possibly lethal experiments in drug-induced mind control.
November 27, 2019 Netflix Family
Emily Oster, professor of teaching excellence, economics, and international and public affairs — and author of "Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting" — spoke with "Orange is the New Black" actress Danielle Brooks in this Netflix Family series debunking common myths and misconceptions about pregnancy and childbirth.
November 26, 2019 WPRI
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, appeared on Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss the latest on Trump's impeachment inquiry.
November 25, 2019 WPRI
Michael Kennedy, Brown University Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, joins Dan Yorke to discuss the impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump.
November 25, 2019 The Washington Post
J Brian Atwood, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, penned this column explaining how presidents have broad authority to condition the release of assistance packages, but they still have to follow the law.
November 20, 2019 CNBC
Cited in CNBC, "The report, from Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, also finds that more than 801,000 people have died as a direct result of fighting. Of those, more than 335,000 have been civilians. Another 21 million people have been displaced due to violence."
November 18, 2019 The Washington Post
Aileen Teague, postdoctoral research associate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, penned this op-ed on why abruptly terminating drug-war-related policies, at least in the near term, is not the answer to reducing violence in Mexico.
November 18, 2019 MSNBC
Timothy Edgar joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss mounting bribery evidence against President Trump, including secret White House emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
November 18, 2019 Digital Journal
Cited in Digital Journal, "The two reports were prepared by the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Catherine Lutz, Costs of War co-director and a Brown Professor who authored the projects' report on deaths said: "These reports provide a reminder that even if fewer soldiers are dying and the U.S. is spending a little less on the immediate costs of war today, the financial impact is still as bad as, or worse than, it was 10 years ago."
November 18, 2019 The Washington Examiner
Cited in The Washington Examiner, "Brown University’s Costs of War Project has unveiled its annual report on the budgetary costs and obligations the United States has incurred from the global war on terror. The report estimates that the federal government has spent $5.4 trillion thus far on our post-9/11 conflicts."
November 15, 2019 Providence Journal
Prerna Singh in the Providence Journal, "Research shows that the popular association of the American flag is with the right. Yet steps toward reclaiming the flag are already being taken — in the artistic, activist and popular realms."
November 14, 2019 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Few in Washington, of either party, have much appetite for soiling the reputations of their old warhorses. It’s far easier to pretend they are all innocent than to suggest they are all guilty."
November 14, 2019 Common Dreams
Cited in Common Dreams, "According to a pair of reports released Wednesday by the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the so-called War on Terror launched by the U.S. in the wake of 9/11 has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion."
November 14, 2019 MSNBC
Timothy Edgar, veteran National Security Intelligence official, joins Ari Melber to discuss the major security implications of Trump’s call and new bribery impeachment evidence on MSNBC.
November 14, 2019 WPRI
Richard Arenberg on WPRI, "I think it’s going to be harder for the hearings to shift public opinion than was true during the Nixon or even the Clinton period."
November 13, 2019 The Hill
Cited in The Hill, "As horrible as the wars’ impacts are in this country, a new report released today by Brown University’s Costs of War project shows that the magnitude of death, injury and trauma in the countries where the United States has fought its wars is far worse."
November 13, 2019 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in Indian Express, "If Hindu consolidation goes further, Muslims will become electorally even more irrelevant."
November 12, 2019 News from Brown
In his new book, Are Men Animals? Mathew Gutmann refutes the decades-old claim that "boys will be boys" and emphasizes that men are more than testosterone and Y chromosomes — a common idea proliferated by society.
November 7, 2019 Mashable
Emily Oster in Mashable, "There’s this fetishization around this type of brain science where just the idea that we can see inside people’s brains and what’s happening in there is awesome, and we must be learning something really important...But whether it’s screen time that causes those differences in the brain, or other features of the family, is really not something this study can disentangle."
November 7, 2019 WPRI
Recounting the 90-minute talk put on by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. Susan Rice detailed her upbringing and foreign policy work in the Clinton and Obama administrations - both of which were referenced in her new book, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.
November 6, 2019 The Washington Post
Richard Arenberg comments in The Washington Post, "Arenberg said the process around the Clinton trial worked because 'Majority Leader [Trent Lott], and the Democratic Leader [Tom Daschle] were very determined to protect the dignity of the Senate and to carry out the proceedings in a manner that did justice to the Constitution.'"
November 5, 2019 Al Jazeera
Jeff Colgan in Al Jazeera, "Investors around the world are thinking, 'You know, long term we have to be worried about stranded assets in fossil fuels' and that's a real concern for not just Norway, but other investors around the world."
November 4, 2019 The Atlantic
This piece mentions that John Friedman, professor of economics and international and public affairs, worked in collaboration with Raj Chetty to create Opportunity Insights - an institute aimed at making success and social mobility a widespread and equal possibility across America.
November 1, 2019 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Americans see the history of US-Iran relations as beginning and ending with the hostage crisis. Iranians see that history quite differently: shaped almost entirely by the 1953 coup. Until these two countries come to a common understanding of what we have done to each other, peace will remain remote."
November 1, 2019 News 1st
Adam Levine in News 1st, "...As a fully endowed center within the Watson Institute, CHRHS will have a sustainable source of funding, allowing us to broaden our collaborations with humanitarian and human rights agencies globally and develop long term research and training initiatives..."
October 30, 2019 VOA News
Jeff Colgan in VOA News, "American oil companies would face a host of practical difficulties in operating there. Legal difficulties, practical challenges - so this would not be easy to do and I'm not sure they would be actually eager to do it."
October 30, 2019 VICE News
Richard Arenberg in VICE, "He brings this ever closer to Trump’s doorstep."
October 29, 2019 TIME
Jeff Colgan in TIME, "A big part of the strategy of defeating ISIS was actually to try to disrupt the oil supply chain, to take out tankers carrying oil, or to destroy any kind of refineries, any sort of ISIS oil operations. The net result was Kurdish forces and U.S. forces helped occupy the territory where the oil fields are."
October 28, 2019 Reuters UK
Jeff Colgan in Reuters, "The idea that the United States would ‘keep the oil’ in the hands of ExxonMobil or some other U.S. company is immoral and possibly illegal."
October 28, 2019 VICE News
Richard Arenberg in VICE, “At this point, it seems hard to imagine that the House won’t ultimately impeach the president...Ambassador Taylor’s statement was devastating.”
October 25, 2019 WBUR
Stephen Kinzer on WBUR, "Let's try to promote projects that unify Syria and if the Kurd's want to unify with the central government of Syria and if anyone else wants to do that, that's good for promoting an end to the war and the prospect of a secular Syria - making political progress over the next generation."
October 23, 2019 NewsClick
Ashutosh Varshney provides commentary in NewsClick, "The pre-existing local networks of civic engagement between the two communities [Hindus and Muslims] stand out as the single most important proximate explanation for the difference between peace and violence.”
October 18, 2019 Marketplace
Mark Blyth provides commentary in Marketplace, "It’s mostly English taxpayers that keep Northern Ireland afloat with an $11 billion a year subsidy."
October 17, 2019 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "This war will only end when the government re-establishes its authority over all of Syrian territory and hostile foreign forces withdraw."
October 17, 2019 ProPublica
John Friedman cited in ProPublica, "It highlighted a 2013 study by Brown University professor John Friedman, a former Obama National Economic Council official, to make the point that the program had been successful in generating “Free Tax Returns Outside of Free File.”
October 17, 2019 The Atlantic
Emily Oster in The Atlantic, "Studies have shown that the more physicians are paid for C-sections relative to vaginal births, the higher the C-section rates become."
October 16, 2019 The Washington Post
Rose McDermott offers commentary on the rise in prominence of youth advocates around the world.
October 15, 2019 BBC
Jayanti Owens reflects on past research revealing the dramatic, identifiable differences between boys and girls in the levels of self-regulation and social skills when beginning school at age four.