November 13, 2019 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in Indian Express, "If Hindu consolidation goes further, Muslims will become electorally even more irrelevant."
November 12, 2019 News from Brown
In his new book, Are Men Animals? Mathew Gutmann refutes the decades-old claim that "boys will be boys" and emphasizes that men are more than testosterone and Y chromosomes — a common idea proliferated by society.
November 7, 2019 Mashable
Emily Oster in Mashable, "There’s this fetishization around this type of brain science where just the idea that we can see inside people’s brains and what’s happening in there is awesome, and we must be learning something really important...But whether it’s screen time that causes those differences in the brain, or other features of the family, is really not something this study can disentangle."
November 7, 2019 WPRI
Recounting the 90-minute talk put on by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. Susan Rice detailed her upbringing and foreign policy work in the Clinton and Obama administrations - both of which were referenced in her new book, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.
November 6, 2019 The Washington Post
Richard Arenberg comments in The Washington Post, "Arenberg said the process around the Clinton trial worked because 'Majority Leader [Trent Lott], and the Democratic Leader [Tom Daschle] were very determined to protect the dignity of the Senate and to carry out the proceedings in a manner that did justice to the Constitution.'"
November 5, 2019 Al Jazeera
Jeff Colgan in Al Jazeera, "Investors around the world are thinking, 'You know, long term we have to be worried about stranded assets in fossil fuels' and that's a real concern for not just Norway, but other investors around the world."
November 4, 2019 The Atlantic
This piece mentions that John Friedman, professor of economics and international and public affairs, worked in collaboration with Raj Chetty to create Opportunity Insights - an institute aimed at making success and social mobility a widespread and equal possibility across America.
November 1, 2019 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Americans see the history of US-Iran relations as beginning and ending with the hostage crisis. Iranians see that history quite differently: shaped almost entirely by the 1953 coup. Until these two countries come to a common understanding of what we have done to each other, peace will remain remote."
November 1, 2019 News 1st
Adam Levine in News 1st, "...As a fully endowed center within the Watson Institute, CHRHS will have a sustainable source of funding, allowing us to broaden our collaborations with humanitarian and human rights agencies globally and develop long term research and training initiatives..."
October 30, 2019 VOA News
Jeff Colgan in VOA News, "American oil companies would face a host of practical difficulties in operating there. Legal difficulties, practical challenges - so this would not be easy to do and I'm not sure they would be actually eager to do it."
October 30, 2019 VICE News
Richard Arenberg in VICE, "He brings this ever closer to Trump’s doorstep."
October 29, 2019 TIME
Jeff Colgan in TIME, "A big part of the strategy of defeating ISIS was actually to try to disrupt the oil supply chain, to take out tankers carrying oil, or to destroy any kind of refineries, any sort of ISIS oil operations. The net result was Kurdish forces and U.S. forces helped occupy the territory where the oil fields are."
October 28, 2019 Reuters UK
Jeff Colgan in Reuters, "The idea that the United States would ‘keep the oil’ in the hands of ExxonMobil or some other U.S. company is immoral and possibly illegal."
October 28, 2019 VICE News
Richard Arenberg in VICE, “At this point, it seems hard to imagine that the House won’t ultimately impeach the president...Ambassador Taylor’s statement was devastating.”
October 25, 2019 WBUR
Stephen Kinzer on WBUR, "Let's try to promote projects that unify Syria and if the Kurd's want to unify with the central government of Syria and if anyone else wants to do that, that's good for promoting an end to the war and the prospect of a secular Syria - making political progress over the next generation."
October 23, 2019 NewsClick
Ashutosh Varshney provides commentary in NewsClick, "The pre-existing local networks of civic engagement between the two communities [Hindus and Muslims] stand out as the single most important proximate explanation for the difference between peace and violence.”
October 18, 2019 Marketplace
Mark Blyth provides commentary in Marketplace, "It’s mostly English taxpayers that keep Northern Ireland afloat with an $11 billion a year subsidy."
October 17, 2019 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "This war will only end when the government re-establishes its authority over all of Syrian territory and hostile foreign forces withdraw."
October 17, 2019 ProPublica
John Friedman cited in ProPublica, "It highlighted a 2013 study by Brown University professor John Friedman, a former Obama National Economic Council official, to make the point that the program had been successful in generating “Free Tax Returns Outside of Free File.”
October 17, 2019 The Atlantic
Emily Oster in The Atlantic, "Studies have shown that the more physicians are paid for C-sections relative to vaginal births, the higher the C-section rates become."