April 19, 2019 The Guardian
Taubman Center Affiliate and Professor of Political Science, Corey Brettschneider in The Guardian, "Impeachment and prosecution of this president, of course, require building on Mueller’s evidence. He has given us a huge head start. It is now up to Congress to look into whether his actions amount to obstruction."
April 19, 2019 The New York Times
Economist Emily Oster in The New York Times, "Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over. You can and should learn about the risks and benefits of your parenting choices, but in the end you have to also think about your family preferences — about what works for you."
April 18, 2019 Bloomberg Daybreak
Political scientist Wendy Schiller joined Bloomberg Daybreak to discuss the release of the Mueller Report.
April 18, 2019 Associated Press
Emily Oster, professor of economics, has written a data-driven parenting guide covering the first three years of life, Cribsheet, out this month from PenguinPress. "This is really a book about decision making and that is what economists study."
April 17, 2019 News 18
Anthropologist Sarah Besky comments on the tea garden workers in Darjeeling and the Indian elections. "...the importing of the ‘kindly rhetoric of colonial plantation management into India’s Constitution’ was that these tea gardens function like states within states."
April 17, 2019 Washington Times
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer comments on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's administration and crackdown on critics. "If we had a political system like ‘Yes or no on your president,’ Ortega would certainly lose. But that’s not the way [it] works."
April 17, 2019 America Magazine
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman sat down with America Magazine to discuss the provisional Vatican-Beijing agreement and Pope Francis' engagement with moderate Islamic leaders. "Francis is pursuing a strategy of creative outreach across cultural differences typical of the Jesuits, fortunately. We need to have peace between religious entities. The consequences of allowing hatred to prevail are ruinous."
April 16, 2019 Libertarianism.org
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer joined Libertarianism.org to answer the question, what is America's role in the world?
April 16, 2019 The Providence Journal
Next week's Watson-sponsored event with Congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is mentioned. "Rhode Island will see one of its first visits by a presidential candidate next week, with a year still to go before the state's primary."
April 15, 2019 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Professor Emily Oster sat down with Penny Johnston of ABC's Babytalk to discuss what advice is worth taking during pregnancy.
April 12, 2019 Providence Business News
Providence Business News sat down with Provost Richard M. Locke, who was recently awarded a $100,000 grant for his project, "The Future of Work and Its Implications for Higher Education." "Understanding the shape and impact of technological change is a chance for universities to improve the education we provide to our students and the research that we produce to benefit society."
April 12, 2019 Common Dreams
Jessica Bram Murphy '19, a student in Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer's International Journalism seminar, in Common Dreams, "The consequences of the tragedy of 9/11 have multiplied across continents. Guantánamo Bay is reflective of a false imperviousness, an illusion of immunity to the rest of the world."
April 11, 2019 All Things Risk
Fellow Sam Wilkin joined the All Things Risk podcast to discuss populism and its reach around the world.
April 11, 2019 The Atlantic
Research by Professor John Friedman's think tank, Opportunity Insights, is cited in an article on the recent college admissions scandal. "Research published by Opportunity Insights ... has found that roughly three dozen of the country’s “elite” colleges enroll more students from households in the top 1 percent of the income scale than they do students from the bottom 60 percent of that scale."
April 9, 2019 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "In India, populism as a term has generally been used for fiscal handouts for the less privileged — loan waivers, poverty alleviation schemes, etc. But that is not how the term is analysed in political theory."
April 8, 2019 The Conversation
Postdoctoral Fellow Aileen Teague in The Conversation, "If Trump ever follows through on his threat and puts up a closed sign at the southern border, it wouldn’t be the first time. Twice in the last half-century the U.S. has tried to use the border to force Mexico to bend to America’s will. The ruse failed both times."
April 8, 2019 GoLocalProv
James N. Green, Director of the Brazil Initiative, will be the guest speaker at Providence's Committee on Foreign Relations meeting. "Green will talk about the political and economic forces that have led to the election of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro."
April 5, 2019 USA Today
Research by the Costs of War Project are cited in an op-ed by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT). "It is time for Congress to ask whether, nearly 18 years after 9/11, we really want to continue to be involved in these wars for another 18 or more. According to a recent study by the Costs of War Project at Brown University, the War on Terror will have cost American taxpayers almost $5 trillion through Fiscal Year 2019."
April 5, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "The delusion that Russians hate us and are working assiduously to rob us of our democratic birthright is dangerous."
April 3, 2019 KJZZ
Sociologist Andrew Schrank joined Phoenix's KJZZ to discuss disaster relief funding for Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
April 3, 2019 The Guardian
Wendy Schiller, Chair of the political science department, comments on recent damaging news reports about former Vice President Joe Biden. "It’s a generational obstacle for Biden because the good stuff he’s done is unknown and the bad stuff he’s done is on video."
March 29, 2019 The New York Times
Professor Eric Patashnik's article on Obamacare is featured in this article on Republicans' new fight over the Affordable Care Act. "Well, political scientists have some interesting thoughts about the reasons the G.O.P. won’t just throw in the towel on the A.C.A."
March 28, 2019 Associated Press
Professor Peter Andreas comments on the United States' history of intellectual piracy, saying "Only after becoming the leading industrial power did it become a champion of intellectual-property protections."
March 28, 2019 E&E News
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon comments on efforts to curb methane emissions from major oil and gas companies. "It is a really important problem, and we're just starting to get a handle on what it is and how to fix it."
March 27, 2019 The Gaurdian
In The Gaurdian, James N. Green says, "Bolsonaro’s position on the dictatorship made him the equivalent of a Holocaust denier."
March 26, 2019 Washington Post
Columnist praises the "vital work" of the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
March 25, 2019 Newsweek
This article cites figures from the Costs of War project stating, "...the U.S. has spent approximately $6 trillion on related conflicts that have killed at least 500,000 people."
March 22, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "American sanctions are intended to send a clear message. We are telling Venezuelans that they will live in ever-intensifying pain until they somehow rid themselves and us of President Nicolas Maduro."
March 21, 2019 CNN
Jeff Colgan is featured in CNN's video explaining the relationship between OPEC and oil prices.
March 20, 2019 The Guardian
Wendy Schiller, Chair of the Political Science department, comments on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's visit to the White House, saying "Trump promised economic and military alliances and he treated Bolsonaro like a true equal leader in the public eye."
March 19, 2019 Marketplace
Associate Professor Jeff Colgan joined Marketplace to discuss global oil supply and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
March 19, 2019 GoLocalProv
Yesterday's event"In Conversation with Tom Perez '83 and Michael Steele," co-sponsored by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy is featured. "I reject the premise we can’t have healthcare for all...The rest of the world has figured this one out and we’re the only industrialized nation on the planet that hasn’t," said Perez.
March 18, 2019 Irish Examiner
In his 2014 book,The Pope & Mussolini, Faculty Fellow David Kertzer said that Pope was planning to release a second anti-fascist encyclical but died on February 10, 1939, before the draft was finalized.
March 18, 2019 The Brookings Register
Research by the Costs of War Project is cited in an opinion article. "High costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable. The public would be better served by increased transparency and by the development of a comprehensive strategy to end the wars."
March 18, 2019 The Guardian
Political scientist Wendy Schiller comments on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's planned visit with President Donald Trump this week, stating "the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and Bolton 'far outweigh any influence Bannon may try to wield.'"
March 15, 2019 Supply Chain Drive
Political economist Mark Blyth comments on the British Parliament's votes toward Brexit, saying "It’s an example of what happens when democracies delegate responsibility for making serious decisions to the public and then they have to live with the consequences without ever thinking through what they’re doing."
March 13, 2019 FITSNews
Costs of War Project co-director, Stephanie Savell, comments on President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the 2020 fiscal year, saying "Contrary to what most Americans believe, the war on terror is not winding down."
March 12, 2019 The New York Times
Ashutosh Varshney comments on the re-election campaign of India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. "As of now, Mr. Modi is the 'odds-on favorite,' but I think the narrative can change. There is still a great deal of anger at Mr. Modi."
March 11, 2019 The Providence Journal
The Center for Contemporary South Asia's event "Decolonizing the Museum: A Teach-In" was highlighted in The Providence Journal. "Museums in the West are places one must go to in order to do the work of research on other places like South Asia," said Vazira Zamindar, a Brown University history professor.
March 11, 2019 The Providence Journal
Political scientist Wendy Schiller comments on last week's vote to protect the legality of abortion in Rhode Island. "By even giving this bill a hearing, much less bringing it to the House floor, Speaker Mattiello is acknowledging the changing dynamics on abortion both inside the Democratic Party in Rhode Island but the state more generally."
March 11, 2019 San Francisco Chronicle
Watson Fellow Marc Dunkelman comments on the growing trend of companies pushing co-living spaces to employees, saying "It’s terrific that (companies) are experimenting with different environments to get people to talk to others."
March 7, 2019 RTE
Political economist Mark Blyth joined RTE to discuss Brexit and British Prime Minister Theresa May.
March 7, 2019 Christian Science Monitor
Professor Rose McDermott comments on human nature's extremes of kindness and aggression, saying "Over long periods of time among large numbers of people, you end up with a more – slightly more – egalitarian system. We breed a kind of peacefulness, at least for the in-group."
March 7, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Last month two nuclear-armed countries, India and Pakistan, came to the brink of war. Their border skirmish was a scary message from the future. If controls on nuclear weapons continue to weaken, more countries will probably develop those weapons."
March 6, 2019 PRI's The World
Faculty Fellow David Kertzer joined PRI's The World to discuss the recent announcement made by Pope Francis that the Vatican will unseal the records of Pope Pius XII. "The question is, how he might have tried to accommodate to Nazi rule. So the criticism against him wasn't that he was pro-Nazi, which he certainly was not."
March 6, 2019 Inside Higher Ed
Assistant professor Robert Blair in Inside Higher Ed, "Studying democratic erosion abroad increases optimism about those prospects, instilling confidence in the strength and longevity of American democratic norms and institutions."
March 6, 2019 BBC
Ashutosh Varshney comments on the tensions between India and Pakistan, and the implications it might have on India's upcoming general election. "Hindu nationalists have always been tougher on national security than the Congress."
March 5, 2019 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss President Trump's summit in Hanoi with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
March 5, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on the new probe into President Trump. "This could very well be the kind of foundation you’d have to lay in order to begin serious impeachment proceedings."
March 5, 2019 The Atlantic
Faculty Fellow David Kertzer in The Atlantic, "The decision follows more than half a century of pressure. Pius XII—a hero of Catholic conservatives... while denounced by his detractors for failing to condemn the Nazis’ genocidal campaign against Europe’s Jews—might well be the most controversial pope in Church history."
March 5, 2019 TIME
Watson Faculty Fellow David Kertzer comments on Pope Francis' decision that the Vatican will unseal the records of Pope Pius XII. "For much of the war, the Pope was hoping to play the role of unbiased mediator between the two sides, and that’s part of the rationale for not taking a stand against the Nazis."
March 1, 2019 News India Times
Ashutosh Varshney comments on the current conflict between India and Pakistan, saying "If Pakistan goes for a military retaliation, which hurts India significantly, that might just gift an election victory to Modi, who looked quite vulnerable only a few weeks ago."
February 28, 2019 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "India is perhaps headed towards its first national security election ever. Security will compete with unemployment and farm distress as a critical election issue, and depending on what happens to Indo-Pak tensions, it might even eclipse the significance of economics."
February 26, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "To withdraw from Afghanistan would be to acknowledge the limits of American power. Some consider that unthinkable — an intolerable loss of face and a dangerous admission of impotence."
February 26, 2019 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss the national emergency declaration the Mueller investigation.
February 22, 2019 The New York Times
Political economist Mark Blyth comments on the US dollar, saying "There is no alternative to the dollar...We’re stuck with the dollar, which gives the United States astonishing structural power."
February 22, 2019 Sputnik International
Research by the Costs of War Program is cited on Sputnik International's show The Critical Hour, where program co-director Stephanie Savell joined Dr. Wilmer Leon. "The Costs Of War Project released a report showing that 'the American public has largely ignored the post-9/11 wars and their costs.'"
February 22, 2019 Global Policy Journal
Jeff Colgan in the Global Policy Journal, "Climate politics are changing. Beyond 'politics as usual,' climate politics are becoming existential: climate-forcing and climate-vulnerable interests are both fighting for the survival of their way of life."