August 4, 2015 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "India is also witnessing yet another feature typical of democracies: election victories alone, however spectacular, cannot sustain political legitimacy."
August 3, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, examined recent interventions by the United States that have caused strife. "In Libya and Sudan. . . He [Obama] ripped apart repressive political orders with the hope that new ones would be better. Both cases have ended in disaster," Kinzer wrote.
July 31, 2015 Star Tribune
Brian Atwood, senior fellow for international and public affairs, co-authors a commentary urging Congress to pass the Iran nuclear agreement and "recognize that this agreement has the potential to interrupt the downward spiral in the region, from conventional war and terrorism to nuclear conflict."
July 30, 2015 ISA Forum Blog, Futures We Want
Michael Kennedy on the ISA Forum blog, "Part of the future I wish to see are universities that are not only simultaneously dedicated to public engagement and basic research, but figuring their fusion in ways that enhance the likelihood that we develop the global futures we want."
July 29, 2015 Market Watch
In and interview with Market Watch, Wendy Schiller says, "You can win delegates and that becomes a signal to primary voters and donors that you’re viable. Success builds upon success [under] proportional representation."
July 24, 2015 News from Brown
Education and education reform remain important national issues, but teacher voices are not always prominently involved. Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez traveled the country to sample teacher sentiments and insights for a new book,Schooled: Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change.
July 22, 2015 WPRO
Elizabeth Burke Bryant on WPRO, "The area where we’re having the most difficulty in terms of these measures is in the area of economic well being. The area where, once again we are leading the country, is in children’s health.”"
July 22, 2015 The Wall Street Journal
Emily Oster, associate professor of economics, comments on an article about outsourcing chores and the value of time. "If hiring help buys you an extra half hour with your job or your kids, it’s worth it, even if in principle you could do it yourself,” Oster said.
July 21, 2015 The Times of India
Ashutosh Varshney in the Times of India, "When will India begin its cleansing? Modi had promised to attack corruption in his election campaign. His silence on the conduct of his own party colleagues has to be viewed as hugely paradoxical."
July 21, 2015 Providence Journal
Richard A. Arenberg, lecturer in public policy and political science, chronicles how members of Congress have failed to come to a compromise on numerous occasions
July 20, 2015 FiveThirtyEight
John Friedman in FiveThirtyEight, "The hard part, as Friedman says, is to “make sure that when you rate a teacher, that you actually rate what the teacher has done, and not whether they had a bunch of very poor or very rich students.”
July 20, 2015 Politico
In an article co-written by Rose McDermott in Politico, "Polygyny produces especially unstable societies because it creates competition among males looking for partners, thus undermining male solidarity and, in many cases, necessitating a more authoritarian style of governance."
July 20, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe: "People in countries that the United States invades, occupies, or dominates may flock to our side for a while. In the end, though, many come to see us above all as foreigners — because that is what we are."
July 17, 2015 FiveThirtyEight
Emily Oster, associate professor of economics, writes about research on the impact and benefits of walking versus running, which researchers typically measure using a measurement known as MET, or metabolic equivalent of task.
July 17, 2015 The Economist
In an article on politics in Argentina, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, assistant professor of political science, says that country does less than some of its neighbors to combat the distribution of benefits and services in exchange for political support.
July 17, 2015 NBC 10 News
Wendy Schiller comments on Lincoln Chaffee's run for president and his current campaign stop in Iowa, noting that his actual goal might just to become part of the conversation versus winning the nomination. “The Iowa caucus is all about meeting people in their living rooms,” Schiller said. “That's how they vote at the end of the day…Governor Chafee’s decent one-to-one. It’s the larger groups that he's not a good communicator.”
July 16, 2015
Stating, “Everyone knows Greece is bankrupt but no one wants blood on their hands for chucking them out of the eurozone”, Mark Blyth, faculty fellow at the Watson Institute talks about the current state of the Greek financial crisis and where he believes it will inevitably end up.
July 15, 2015 Bloomberg Radio
Watson Professor Andrew Schrank talks with Bloomberg radio's Michael McKee about the Puerto Rican Debt crisis, discussing his recent contribution with Postdoctoral Fellow Deepak Lamba-Nieves published online by Foreign Affairs.
July 15, 2015 The Huffington Post
Richard Locke, Brown University Provost and Watson Institute Director, is cited in the Huffington Post for his research on working conditions at Nike.
July 15, 2015 C-SPAN2
Earlier this week, Glenn Loury, Watson Faculty Fellow and Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, participated in an anti-poverty forum to deliberate these and other challenging issues. The event, convened in Washington, DC by the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE), brought community and thought leaders together to discuss the power of local, grassroots activists in the fight against poverty.