January 22, 2018 Entrepreneur
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar comments on a story about encrypting data, saying "Lots of sensitive data is the hands of third parties. If the South Korean military and the NSA are having problems keeping their data in their own hands, what chance do the rest of have?"
January 19, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Since they have become an almost permanent feature of modern life, people are slow to react to them.
January 19, 2018 Economic Rockstar Podcast
Economist Emily Oster joined economics and finance lecturer Frank Conway on his podcast Economic Rockstar to discuss diabetes and diets, disease and vaccinations, and pregnancy myths.
January 16, 2018 The New York Times
In The New York Times' The Upshot, Emily Oster co-writes about the 2014 episode that left 159 Disneyland visitors with the measles, and the policy change that followed in California that triggered a jump in vaccination rates across the state.
January 15, 2018 Slate
An article that posits that the false missile alert in Hawaii illustrates how close we are to being at war with North Korea notes that the Costs of War study at Brown University found that “future medical and disability costs” for the current wars “will total between $600 billion and $1 trillion.”
January 12, 2018 U.S. News & World Report
Costs of War Co-director Stephanie Savell, co-authored an opinion piece on the Project's new map, which shows the U.S. counterterror activity around the world. "What started with President George W. Bush's launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in October 2001 is now a rapid expansion of the U.S. military footprint across the globe."
January 11, 2018 Foreign Affairs
This article co-written by political economist Mark Blyth in Foreign Affairs is part of an e-book on financial geopolitics. "As a single-currency area, the eurozone formally has no internal imbalances."
January 11, 2018 U.S. News & World Report
Political scientist Eric Patashnik comments on the banned practice of earmarks, saying "Restoring earmarks is not strong enough medicine to cure the dysfunctions of today's Congress. Polarization runs much too deep. But it is still a sensible thing to do."
January 8, 2018 The New York Times
Professor Ashutosh Varshney comments on India's economic woes and Prime Minister Nardenra Modi. "If economic manoeuvrability is limited, then the communal card, the Hindu-Muslim card, is a massive political temptation."
January 8, 2018 The Washington Post
Nina Tannenwald's research is cited in an article on the history of world leaders avoiding using nuclear weapons since World War II, saying "powerful revulsion associated with nuclear weapons had played a role in inhibiting their use."
January 5, 2018 The Washington Post
Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar in The Washington Post, "The current protest wave in Iran has already shaken the political landscape of the regime and society. Some younger activists in the mid and lower reformist ranks have suggested channeling this wave to make their own demands through street demonstrations organized by reformist parties."
January 5, 2018 Newsweek
In Newsweek, Narges Bajoghli comments on women's involvement in the Iran protests. “Women have been at the forefront of pushing for change in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. In fact, the women's rights movements are the biggest thorns in the side of the regime.”
January 5, 2018 Jacobin Magazine
Postdoctoral Fellow Narges Bajoghli in Jacobin Magazine, "At the moment, the protests are leaderless, and the slogans vary from demands for economic equity to the freedom of political prisoners to the overthrow of the supreme leader to the downfall of the entire regime."
January 5, 2018 CNN
Research by Emily Oster is cited about the infant mortality rate in the United States. "In the paper, published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 'we find that 45% of regional differences can be attributed to differences in birth weight, with lower birth weights in states like Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, especially relative to the Northeast.'"
January 5, 2018 WBUR
Political economist Mark Blyth joined WBUR's Radio Open Source to give his state of the union.
January 4, 2018 The Dig Podcast with Daniel Denvir
Professor Cathy Lutz joined Daniel Denvir on his The Dig Podcast to discuss troop veneration, John Kelly's recent diatribe, and President Trump's attack on protesting NFL players.
January 4, 2018 TomDispatch.com
A new map from the Costs of War Project analyzes the U.S. counterterror activity around the world between 2015 and October 2017.
January 3, 2018 Buzzfeed
Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar comments on the protests happening in Iran and why the middle class is mostly sitting out. “For any successful protest movement of this type with radical demands a broad alliance is required.”
January 3, 2018 Al-Monitor
Postdoctoral Fellow Narges Bajoghli explains how "media outlet backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seek[s] to reinforce the narrative of the supreme leader above the politics of Iran."
January 3, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "A sudden collapse of Iran’s governing system would be bad for us. It would set another Middle Eastern country aflame and feed the instability that breeds terror."