January 12, 2015
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer was among 53 historians interviewed by New York Magazine on what they believed President Barack Obama's legacy will consist of.
January 12, 2015
Mark Blyth, professor of international political economy, and Eric Lonergan in the Harvard Business Review: "Modest innovation to address the intertwined problems of deflation and inequality is needed."
January 11, 2015
Stephen Kinzer, journalist in residence, discusses his book "The Brothers" about the lives of the Dulles brothers, and explains why the US would be wrong to try to hide this part of its history.
January 8, 2015
A new study by researchers at MIT and Brown University finds evidence of bias against immigrants from Latin America in the green card approval process. Former Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Ben Rissing co-authored the study and joins Take Two for more.
January 7, 2015
Richard Arenberg, adjunct lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science, writes about the end of the era of the “Watergate Babies,” which was the nickname applied to the class of House Democratic freshmen elected in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the mark they left on Washington.
January 6, 2015
Visiting Fellow Timothy Edgar discusses why offshoring data doesn't mean escaping the NSA.
January 5, 2015
In a forum in the Boston Review, Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury says: "...making Brown a poster child around which to organize a movement for social justice might be a profound mistake, for doing so creates a situation where the success or failure of that movement hinges on the facts of his case."
January 5, 2015
Associate Director Peter Andreas' book "Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America" named one of 2014's most important books on the Western Hemisphere by Foreign Affairs.
January 5, 2015
Stephen Kinzer pens an op-ed on some of modern history's greatest national leaders and questions whether their style of leadership would work in today's world.
January 2, 2015
Stephen Robert, chairman of the Watson Institute in Haaretz: "If Israel’s leaders are determined to stand alone, they will almost certainly stand alone. But they should remember that revolutions seem impossible until they happen, then they are inevitable."
January 1, 2015
Richard Holbrooke Assistant Professor of Political Science Jeff Colgan won an "Albie" award, recognizing the best writing on political economy over the past year for his article, "The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market".