March 9, 2018 Providence Business News
Providence Business News asked Susan Moffitt, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, questions about her top priorities, the major challenges the center faces and the center's role in educating Brown students about American politics and policy.
March 9, 2018 Digital Impact
Economist Justine Hastings joined practitioners on a virtual roundtable to discuss an emerging data-sharing model that helps dissolve barriers to collaboration while safeguarding sensitive data.
March 9, 2018 DU Center for Middle East Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar discussed the aftermath of the Iranian Protests at the University of Denver's Center for Middle East Studies.
March 7, 2018 The Commonwealth Fund
Political scientist James A. Morone teams up with The Commonwealth Fund's President David Blumenthal to look back at the Affordable Care Act's passage through a historical lens, beginning with Harry Truman's proposed universal insurance plan in 1945.
March 5, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "At unsettled historical moments like the one through which we are now passing, the value of institutions becomes clearer."
February 28, 2018 Bloomberg
In a video interview at the Global Financial Markets Forum in Abu Dhabi, political economist Mark Blyth discusses Brexit negotiations, populism across Europe, tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, geopolitical risk and the upcoming election in Italy.
February 26, 2018 U.S. News & World Report
Postdoctoral Fellow Nick Barnes, along with Stephanie Savell, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, in U.S. News & World Report, "The Brazilian military prides itself on always being ready to step in and save the nation, seeing itself as a bastion of responsibility and ethics amid chaos, corruption and criminality."
February 23, 2018 Innovation Hub
Eric Patashnik joins Innovation Hub to discuss evidence-based medical procedures and his recent book, Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine.
February 22, 2018 Atlas Obscura
A U.S. project from the Cold War is turning into an environmental hazard, due to climate change, according to Professor Jeff Colgan in his new study.
February 21, 2018 Wall Street Journal
Carrie Nordlund, Associate Director of the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Program, joins Wall Street Journal's Jason Bellini for an episode of Moving Upstream to discuss the latest technology in the garment industry and what it means for the millions of people who work in it.
February 20, 2018 Foreign Affairs
Professor Jim Morone reviews Fantasyland, a new book by Kurt Andersen, in Foreign Affairs.
February 20, 2018 NBC 10
Professor Wendy Schiller comments on the recently released fundraising agreement between Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and the Providence Democratic City Committee.
February 20, 2018 Wall Street Journal
Postdoctoral Fellow Narges Bajoghli comments on the differing views of Iran's military commander, General Qassem Soleimani. "Within their ranks, they call the Iran-Iraq war a World War III that no one in the world recognizes.”
February 20, 2018 Motherboard
Political scientist Jeff Colgan discusses his new study on the impacts of climate change on military bases. “It’s not a high priority. In fact it’s a barely known [issue] in Washington."
February 20, 2018 Breached Podcast
Marc Dunkelman, Fellow in Public Policy, joined the Breached Podcast to discuss how we define the boundaries of an American community, legally, politically, and practically.
February 16, 2018 The Providence Journal
"To the list of landmark genocide studies must now be added Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, Brown University Prof. Omer Bartov’s masterfully researched and hauntingly rendered history of atrocities committed against — and by — the religiously and ethnically mixed former residents of a place that today is part of Ukraine."
February 15, 2018 TomDispatch.com
Stephanie Savell, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, describes the hidden costs of America's counterterror wars and the Project's mission to draw attention to them, in an op-ed on TomDispatch.com.
February 14, 2018 The Japan Times
In response to a Brazilian samba school’s use of blackface in a Carnival parade, James N. Green, director of the Brazil Initiative, said it made sense that there would be confusion over how to interpret blackface in Brazil, since it originated outside the country.
February 14, 2018 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Modi is right to say that Nehru alone did not produce India’s democracy. In the Constituent Assembly, there was no great resistance to the idea of universal franchise."
February 13, 2018 BBC Business Matters
Political Economist Mark Blyth joins BBC's Business Matters to discuss President Trump's budget among other things.