January 22, 2017 Politico
Jim Morone, Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, explains how the first American election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is similar to the present, and what we can learn from it.
January 20, 2017 Bloomberg
Political Science Professor Wendy Schiller joins Bloomberg Daybreak to giver her thoughts on President Trump's first day in office.
January 20, 2017 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer's new book "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire" is spotlighted.
January 20, 2017
As part of the Choices Program's Teaching with the News lesson, "From George Washington to Donald Trump: Comparing Inaugural Addresses," students explore historical moments in inaugural addresses, identifying themes and assessing implications of a variety of selected speeches.
January 19, 2017 The New Yorker
Ted Widmer, Senior Fellow, in The New Yorker, "There are moments in a hard-fought campaign when a catchy cluster of words can suddenly bubble up from the depths, a shiny new lily pad."
January 18, 2017 The New York Times
A study co-authored by John Friedman on the role of colleges in upward income mobility is cited in the New York Times.
January 17, 2017 The New York Times
Elias Muhanna, assistant professor of comparative literature, comments on the polarization of different perspectives found in Arabic news.
January 17, 2017 Foreign Affairs
Jeff Colgan, Political Science Professor, in Foreign Affairs, "But when elites fail to give reasonable cues about who the 'other' is, people decide for themselves."
January 13, 2017 The Border Mail
During President Obama's touching farewell to the nation, he took the opportunity to highlight the high points of his administration. Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer said one of the important legacies President Obama leaves behind is the acknowledgment that the United States' role in the world has changed.
January 12, 2017 WEKU
With the U.S. being one of the few developed countries with an increasing maternity mortality ratio, Brown associate professor Emily Oster says home visiting programs may play a role.
January 12, 2017 WPRO Dan Yorke Show
John Friedman, professor of economics and international and public affairs, discusses Obama's farewell address, and Trump's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
January 11, 2017 Open Democracy
On Wednesday, January 11th, Watson Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Elena Shih and Dr. Joel Quirk from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) will convene a public debate on Human Trafficking awareness campaigns. Shih and Quirk are Editors of the Beyond Trafficking and Slavery section of openDemocracy.net, a London-based global digital commons with over nine million readers.
January 6, 2017 WPRO Dan Yorke Show
Watson Institute senior fellow Timothy Edgar joined the Dan Yorke Show to discuss the hearing on Russian hacking.
January 6, 2017 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow in international and public affairs, wrote an op-ed about U.S. intervention in foreign elections amid ongoing news of the alleged Russian backed hacking in the recent election.
January 6, 2017 KBIA 91.3
Faculty Fellow and Director of the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, Adam Levine, joined KBIA 91.3's On Point to discuss Liberia's recovery from the Ebola epidemic and the research being done to prevent the next outbreak.
January 4, 2017 The New York Times
Richard Arenberg, Adjunct Lecturer for the MPA Program, in The New York Times, "If the Senate is to end gridlock, reduce partisanship and begin to address the nation’s pressing issues, both parties must renew their respect for Senate rules — and the views of the people."
January 3, 2017 Asia Times
Brown economist Mark Blyth comments on an article focusing on the staggering U.S. spending on research and development.
January 3, 2017 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Professor of Sociology Michael Kennedy joined Dan Yorke's State of Mind to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's skepticism toward Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.
January 2, 2017 The New York Times
Ashutosh Varshney, professor of international studies, commented on India's Supreme Court decision that candidates running for political office cannot appeal to voters on the basis of religion, caste, community or language, and called the recent decision "very mystifying."