August 28, 2015
Emily Kassie has received a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her film, I Married My Family's Killer. The film, on intermarriage in post-genocide Rwanda, has screened at many festivals and received numerous other awards, including Best Foreign Short, IFS Film Festival; Best Documentary Jury Award, Tallgrass Film Festival; and Outstanding Achievement Humanitarian Award, Global Film Awards.
August 28, 2015 Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer writes about Uzbekistan's possible dismantling of its famed art museum, which was built over decades in semi-secrecy during the Stalin dictatorship, and is now a gem of world culture, with a 90,000-piece collection.
August 27, 2015 Sputnik
Jeff Colgan comments on the strong link between China’s economic woes and recent drops in the US stock market as well as global energy prices.
August 24, 2015 Brookings Brief
Kenneth Wong on Brookings Brief, "The state-federal tension on issues like educator evaluation is illustrative of the challenges associated with our decentralized governance structure in education. Federal direction has its limits, and states often face challenges and controversies that stem from internal state politics."
August 24, 2015 The Providence Journal
Rose McDermott, professor of political science, co-wrote an op-ed against the legalization of polygamy in the United States. "Polygamy is neither new nor rare. It is practiced in many cultures around the world," adding that if legalized it would undermine the stability of society and deeply harm women and children.
August 22, 2015 Live Mint
Research by Prerna Singh is mentioned in an article about the connection of India's diverse economy and socioeconomic attributes.
August 21, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe, "If people in Western countries had not developed a taste for sugar, spices, and tropical fruits, the world might have evolved quite differently. Restless taste buds have produced much global turmoil."
August 21, 2015 City Lab, The Atlantic
In an article on a new report that found that most Americans have never spent time with their neighbors, Marc Dunkelman, public policy fellow at Brown, discusses the reasons why people used to have more interactions with the people that lived around them.
August 20, 2015 Mother Jones
In Mother Jones, "...in the American Journal of Political Science, a team of researchers including Peter Hatemi of Penn State University and Rose McDermott of Brown University studied the relationship between our deep-seated tendencies to experience fear—tendencies that vary from person to person, partly for reasons that seem rooted in our genes—and our political beliefs."
August 18, 2015 Lawfare Blog
Timothy Edgar discusses recent New York Times article on the newly released Snowden documents, "The NSA’s “upstream collection” program – grabbing Internet communications in transit from telecommunications providers – has been publicly known for over two years."
August 17, 2015 SZ
Mark Blyth in SZ, "...the Euro is quite secure from Greek defaults and British exits and other near term risks. But its own new growth model may prove to be its weakest link over the longer term."
August 14, 2015 El Nuevo Día
Deepak Lamba-Nieves, postdoctoral fellow, discusses the ongoing fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico in El Nuevo Día.
August 13, 2015 Sputnik
Jeff Colgan in Sputnik, "In North America, it [lifting crude oil export ban] could mean slightly higher prices for crude...and therefore smaller profits for refineries,”
August 13, 2015 Yahoo News
Wendy Schiller comments on Hillary Clinton trailing in polls in an article on the 2016 election campaign. “It shows that voters are very much looking for something different, and that there is a lot of frustration on the right and left in American politics,” Schiller said.
August 13, 2015 City Lab, The Atlantic
On City Lab, "[A] recent independent economic analysis conducted by John Friedman concludes that even under all optimistic assumptions, AAF will generate annual losses of more than $100 million and will be unable to service its debt burden."
August 12, 2015 The National Interest
Nicholas Miller in The National Interest, "Yet there is little reason to believe that the Iran deal would lead to a complete reorientation of U.S. policy toward Iran. The Ayatollah himself appears to have little interest in such an outcome, U.S. sanctions on Iran for its human rights violations and support for terrorism will remain in place, and U.S. domestic support for Israel and opposition to groups like Hezbollah is not going away anytime soon."
August 11, 2015 Vox
Prof. Nina Tannenwald comments on the "nuclear taboo" which makes the idea of the use of nuclear weapons both horrifying and impossible to imagine.
August 11, 2015 Pacific Standard
Prof. Andrew Schrank contributes the latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.
August 4, 2015 New York Times Magazine
Mark Blyth is cited in the New York Times Magazine, "Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University and the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, traces the concept of fiscal austerity back to the 17th-century British philosopher John Locke and an ambivalence toward state power."
August 4, 2015 Bloomberg
A profile of Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo quotes Brown Professor Wendy Schiller on Raimondo's impact: “She’s very much on the national radar,” Schiller said.