August 12, 2019 PBS NewsHour
Professor Glenn Loury provided commentary on slavery reparations, saying "Seeing blackness and African descent as some kind of subhuman category, that would legitimate in the land of the free and the home of the brave carrying on a commerce in human chattel... That was a deep and profound injury. It can't be made into a piece of cash."
August 9, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Power to direct American government has fallen to the corrupt and nefarious. Amid this collapse, it is cold comfort to know that some other countries are doing far better."
August 8, 2019 The Economic Times
Professor Ashutosh Varshney comments on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "bold step" to revoke Artiicle 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir. "Can Art. 370 bee scrapped with an executive order, or through a constitutional amendment?"
August 8, 2019 Knowable Magazine
The well known "war on drugs" is only one episode in a long, multifaceted and often direct relationship between addictive drugs and armed conflict, says Political Science professor Peter Andreas, in this interview.
August 6, 2019 Susan Coleman
Stephanie Savell, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, sat down with Susan Coleman to discuss the Project and the war on terror, saying "it seems to be 'the biggest story in the United States that no one wants to talk about.'"
August 6, 2019 Common Dreams
Research by the Costs of War Project is cited in an article linking employment and the Defense Industry. "$1 billion in military spending creates approximately 11,200 jobs, compared with 26,700 in education, 16,800 in clean energy, and 17,200 in health care."
August 6, 2019 Center for American Progress
Research from John Friedman's Opportunity Atlas is cited. "Using data taken from the Opportunity Atlas—a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University that provides data on economic mobility throughout the country—one can see that the South has the lowest level of economic mobility for all demographics."
August 5, 2019 The Nation
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman provided commentary on Steve Bannon's reforming of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) that named China an existential threat to American citizens. "The assault on China rests upon the assumption that everyone else has to be governed in the same way we are."
August 5, 2019 The New York Times
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer comments on Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's presidential camapaign, saying "A lot of us in Tulsi world, we don’t have the fantasy that she’s going to pull ahead, but she serves a great purpose in this campaign because she is saying things that no one else is saying."
August 1, 2019 The New York Times
Professor Glenn Loury argues in The New York Times that by defending Al Sharpton, Democrats have "handed Trump an easy win and yoked themselves to a genuine bigot."
July 31, 2019 ABC6
A new study co-authored by Assistant Professor Jayanti Owens finds that discipline in many classrooms is anything but fair, with punishments often unequal and cutting along racial lines. "It was extraordinarily disturbing and I really didn't want to believe it."
July 31, 2019 Vox
Research by the Costs of War Project is cited in an article ahead of the Democratic debates. "Whether it’s in Syria or Afghanistan, Western or Eastern Africa, the US has spent roughly $6 trillion combating terrorism around the world, according to an estimate from Brown University’s Cost of War program."
July 30, 2019 The Guardian
Political scientist Wendy Schiller comments on former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony and possible impeachment. "Mueller’s lacklustre testimony likely gave Speaker Pelosi the ammunition to withstand calls for impeachment inquiries, or hearings, from the left flank of her party."
July 30, 2019 Vox
Research by the Costs of War Project is mentioned in regards to the open letter signed by scientists calling for governments to be held responsible for environmental damage their militaries inflict in war zones. "“Increases in cancer, birth defects, and other conditions have been associated with war-related environmental damage and toxins” in Iraq, according to the Costs of War Project."
July 30, 2019 NBC News
Research by the Costs of War Project is mentioned in an article about President Trump's commentary on Afghanistan during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. "According to Brown University’s Watson Institute, 140,000 Afghans have been killed since 2001 and 2.4 million are refugees."
July 30, 2019 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Does democracy contain within itself the seeds of its own weakening? Does it have an inner adversary? These questions have long agitated the minds of political thinkers."
July 30, 2019 KCET
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon comments on the frequent oil spills in California, saying "It’s like turning oil from the consistency of peanut butter into the consistency of honey."
July 30, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "In the United States, it is possible to spend many years in politics and rise to high positions without ever thinking seriously about foreign policy. This self-imposed ignorance would be lamentable in any country. In the United States it is especially dangerous."
July 23, 2019 ABC6
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on former special counsel Robert Mueller's upcoming Congressional testimony, saying "Overwhelmingly, most Americans have no idea how damning the report actually is. The constant refrain from the White House of ‘witch-hunt,’ ‘no collusion’ and ‘no obstruction,’ and the Trump assertion that the report exonerates him have left the truth obscured by a dense fog."
July 22, 2019 Providence Business News
Dr. Adam C. Levine, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, has been named to Providence Business News' 40 Under Forty for 2019, and Top 4 Doctors Under 40 by the Rhode Island Medical Society.