May 10, 2018 News from Brown
Established by Robert Blair, assistant professor of political science, "Democratic Erosion" is a cross-university collaborative course that was created "to help students critically and systematically evaluate the risks to democracy both here and abroad through the lens of theory, history and social science."
May 10, 2018 Politifact
Professor David Kertzer, the author of "The Pope and Mussolini," said Albright's comment describes the purging of the bureaucracy accurately early in Mussolini's tenure.
May 9, 2018 Foreign Policy
Postdoctoral Fellow Narges Bajoghli draws on her research interviews with members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to argue that President Trump's decision to throw out the Iran Deal will permanently destroy any trust the country's citizens once had in the U.S.
May 7, 2018 Wired
"It does not take a very stable genius to understand that the U.S. relationship with China is now under severe stress," said Senior Fellow Chas Freeman at the annual conference for the Committee of 100, a group of influential Chinese-Americans, in Silicon Valley.
May 1, 2018 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney recently sat down with Harvard University's Roderick MacFarquhar to discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping's Wuhan summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
May 1, 2018 NPR The Takeaway
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer joined WNYC's The Takeaway to discuss Nicaraguans' dissatisfaction with the President Daniel Ortega and the clashes with police during previous protests.
April 30, 2018 RIPR
Rob Blair, assistant professor of political science, joined Rhode Island Public Radio to discuss a course he developed following the 2016 presidential election. The course is designed to answer the question: is our democracy failing?
April 26, 2018 NPR
Pius IX became head of the Catholic church in 1846 and instituted the doctrine of Papal infallibility. In an interview with NPR's Terry Gross, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor David Kertzer said his exile led to the emergence of modern Italy.
April 26, 2018 Live Mint
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon in Live Mint, "As a growing part of a growing region, India’s EV policies and refining decisions will be significant, both regionally and globally."
April 25, 2018
Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute, has received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and a Berlin Prize.
April 25, 2018 Politifact
As former FBI Director James Comey travels the nation promoting his new book, the classification of his leaked memos are uncertain.
April 24, 2018 Foward
Natalie Portman's decision not to attend an awards ceremony in Israel to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies signals a potential turning point in discourse on the country for young American Jews.
April 24, 2018 The Hechinger Report
Stories of upward mobility were once a key feature of American life. Children born in the 1940s were almost guaranteed to grow up and earn more than their parents did. But upward mobility has stalled, according to economist John Friedman.
April 23, 2018 CNN
Comments by Professor Ashutosh Varshney were mentioned in a segment on the growing religious divide in India, on CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria.
April 20, 2018 The Atlantic
The AP has confirmed findings by Professor David Kertzer that Edgardo Mortara's memoirs were changed in ways big and small when they were translated from the original Spanish into Italian.
April 20, 2018 News from Brown
Among the winners of the annual award program is Professor Rose McDermott, who "earned a Distinguished Research Achievement Award for her pioneering scholarship, including in the area of political psychology, and her innovative interdisciplinary work across political science, international relations, psychology and behavioral genetics."
April 18, 2018 The Outline
Public Policy Fellow Marc Dunkleman, said he loves the idea of an ecosystem of entrepreneurs "trying to figure out ways to address" the lack of person-to-person connection in today's society, but he criticized startups for setting up meetings between like-minded people who may not learn more about the world from talking to each other.
April 18, 2018 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Students Alexander Kramer '21 and Emma Chow '21 joined Dan Yorke's State of Mind to discuss the Trump administration's views on youth engagement in politics. Both students are currently enrolled in Michael Kennedy's political sociology courses.
April 17, 2018 Quartz
Americans' tax records are the best dataset for assessing income inequality and the odds that a child born poor can become rich. The IRS still only accepts a small number of applications for studies every year, and a list put together by economist John Friedman shows they are almost all from elite schools.
April 16, 2018 The Atlantic
Professor David Kertzer in The Atlantic, "Today, the Edgardo Mortara episode continues to roil the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic-Jewish relations."