May 23, 2017 US New and World Report
Catherine Lutz in US News, "Our safety as a nation depends as much or more on a healthy, well-educated population as it does on the force of arms. Given this reality, the new budget's sharp reductions in programs that address the needs of low-income families and individuals are blows to our nation's basic security."
May 23, 2017 Defense One
The Costs of War Project is cited in an article explaining President Trump's new arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
May 23, 2017 Monkey Cage Blog
Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog, "While campaigns provide a seasonal outlet for pro-reform electorates to push their agendas, the online space has proven a more constant arena for Iranian citizens to express and spread their demands."
May 22, 2017 Xconomy
An article about the role of automation in U.S. manufacturing cites an op-ed co-authored by Jeff Colgan.
May 22, 2017 The Washington Post
The Choices Program is mentioned in an article about students' negative feelings toward history, and how teachers can fix such opinions.
May 21, 2017 Teen Vogue
Postdoctoral Fellow Narges Bajoghli in Teen Vogue, "You see very lax forms of covering the head, which you would think is something very superficial, but women have fought for this very hard, even as the government has reacted."
May 15, 2017 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Atlantic nations have dominated the world for the last 500 years. That long historical moment is now ending."
May 13, 2017 The New York Times
Political Science professor Peter Andreas in The New York Times, "My mother’s diaries made clear that she saw being a good mother and good revolutionary as the same thing, that there was no tension between the two and that those who thought otherwise just didn’t get it."
May 12, 2017 The Atlantic
Watson's Costs of War Project is referenced in this article on how few Americans are focused on the war in Afghanistan.
May 12, 2017 The New York Times
Peter Andreas' new memoir, Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution, is featured in The New York Times.
May 11, 2017 Bloomberg
An article about how auto-enrollment and payroll deduction can be powerful ways to avert America’s retirement crisis includes quotes from John Friedman, associate professor of economics.
May 8, 2017 Brown Alumni Magazine
Peter Andreas talks to Brown Alumni Magazine about his new book, Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution.
May 5, 2017 Quartz
Emily Oster, associate professor of economics, gives suggestions on the best ways for a couple to split expenses when one partner earns significantly more than the other.
May 2, 2017 Lobe Log
In his latest essay, Watson Institute senior fellow Chas Freeman wrote about the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
May 1, 2017 The Washington Post
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar commented on the far reaching practice the National Security Agency has recently discontinued which allowed the agency to collect foreign intelligence from emails and might've led to the invasion of U.S. citizens' privacy.
May 1, 2017 The Washington Post
Public Policy program Director Eric Patashnik reviews David R. Mayhew's new book The Imprint of Congress.
April 28, 2017 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer wrote an op-ed about decisions made in Washington that have led to nuclear escalation with North Korea.
April 28, 2017 The Providence Journal
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon comments on scientists finding their voice to stand up for what they know is right.
April 28, 2017 Governing Magazine
Economist Justine Hastings comments on the trend of cities turning to social scientists and research labs to help answer and shape public policy.
April 26, 2017 WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
Political science professor Peter Andreas discusses his new book Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution with WNYC's Leonard Lopate.