October 11, 2018 News from Brown
Former Secretary of State John Kerry joined Ed Steinfeld, director of the Watson Institute, and Susan Moffitt, director of the Taubman Center, for a discussion on his new book, Every Day is Extra, during a recent visit to campus.
October 10, 2018 VOA
Senior Fellow Richard Boucher comments on Nikki Haley's resignation as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "She has been unique in this administration, not because she's pushed a strong U.S. agenda, but in showing that to accomplish our goals we need to sit down with other countries and work in concert with allies and friendly countries."
October 9, 2018 Huffington Post
Director of the Brazil Initiative, James N. Green, offered commentary on the upcoming presidential election in Brazil, saying "This is the most crucial election in the history of Brazil...Brazil can go in two different directions now."
October 9, 2018 The Washington Post
Associate Professor Jeff Colgan in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, "Delaying action on climate will hurt the economy and create new demands on taxpayers for expensive, reactive measures. These outcomes can be avoided only to the extent climate-vulnerable interests can be mobilized before they feel the impact."
October 5, 2018
Participants in the fall 2018 cohort of Brown in Washington, a partnership program between the Swearer Center and the Watson Institute, will welcome new faculty and staff members to the program this semester.
October 4, 2018 The Guardian
James N. Green, director of the Brazil Initiative, offered commentary on Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, saying “Bolsonaro is much more of a wild card than Trump is."
October 4, 2018 National Academy of Public Administration
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine, co-authored by Eric Patashnik is awarded the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award.
October 4, 2018 Geekwire
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will commit $15 million to get the new initiative Opportunity Insights, co-founded by associate professor of economics John Friedman, off the ground. This week, the organization, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, published comprehensive nationwide data and maps that predict the likelihood that kids will escape poverty based on where they live.
October 4, 2018 Ed Source
One of the studies to examine the rollout of California's new academic standards in the recently released Getting Down to Facts project found encouraging signs from teachers and principals whom researchers interviewed. “There were strong signals from teachers in high poverty schools that they were seeing improvement” in teaching and in training in the standards, said Professor Susan Moffitt.
October 2, 2018 California Today
James N. Green, Director of the Brazil Initiative, in California Today, "The absence of minimal fire safety and security measures and the lack of disaster preparedness reflect a blatant disregard for the Brazilian nations crucial cultural and scholarly resources."
October 1, 2018 Newsmax
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg in Newsmax, "Without the filibuster as a counter-weight against totally majority-driven procedures, Chairman Grassley (R-IA) and his majority were able to ignore fundamental demands. The minority was helpless to insist that all the necessary documents be produced to the committee."
October 1, 2018 Fox News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on the Senate Judiciary Committee and Brett Kavanaugh hearing, saying "This is the new reality in Supreme Court confirmations and unfortunately is very likely to give us a Supreme Court more tainted by partisanship than ever before."
October 1, 2018 The New York Times
In collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, Opportunity Insights, a research and policy institute formed by economists from Harvard and Brown Universities, including Associate Professor John Friedman, released an interactive mapping tool called "The Opportunity Atlas." The Opportunity Atlas helps predict how neighborhoods influence the trajectories of the children who grow up there.
October 1, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "American leaders are threatening Iran in terms more vituperative than any the United States has ever used against a sovereign nation. To accompany their threats, they have embarked on the harshest campaign of economic sanctions in modern history."
September 27, 2018 The New York Times
India's Supreme Court hears up to 700 legal matters a day (vs. the 70 cases a year that the U.S. Supreme Court hears), according to Professor Ashutosh Varshney. Without the Court, he says, India would be “ruled frightfully by societal prejudices and government excesses.”
September 25, 2018 Fox Business
Senior Fellow Richard Boucher joins Fox Business to discuss the US sanctions on Iran and what he hopes to hear from President Trump's speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
September 24, 2018 Pacific Standard
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar provided commentary on the future of satellites and surveillance. "You study what cars are parked in the parking lot; that can reveal an enormous amount of information. It's used to plan military attacks. It could be used for corporate espionage."
September 24, 2018 Newsweek
According to sources, President Donald Trump has called U.S. involvement in Afghanistan a "total disaster." The Costs of War project estimates that at least 970,000 American veterans are disabled as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
September 20, 2018 The Washington Post
International Relations student Ethan Fecht in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog, "...there’s another weapon being deployed. Russia has begun laying the groundwork for an online influence operation aimed at turning U.S. public opinion against such a strike. How would this Twitter campaign unfold?"
September 18, 2018 Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor of Economics John Friedman offered commentary on Brightline's expected acquisition of a private rail project on the Las Vegas Strip. "...Friedman concluded Brightline would be unable to service its debt burden on the Miami train system, in a study funded by a citizens group opposed to the rail line."