June 27, 2019 Mic
The Pentagon has managed to shrink its carbon footprint in recent years, but it is still massive. Researchers from the Costs of War Project estimate it is responsible for producing more than 59 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2017.
June 27, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on July 17, saying "The Congressional minority should have insisted on public hearings two years ago."
June 24, 2019 Foreign Affairs
In an op-ed by 2020 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, research by the Costs of War Project is cited. "The war on terror has also been staggeringly wasteful. According to the most recent study by the Costs of War Project at Brown University, it will have cost American taxpayers more than $4.9 trillion through the end of this fiscal year."
June 21, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "We too have trouble realizing that our problems in the world have causes. To understand the desperation driving Guatemalan and Honduran migrants, it helps to recognize our own role in creating it."
June 20, 2019 Brunonia
Our new expansion building, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, is highlighted. Ed Steinfeld, Director of the Institute, shared "We had a vision for what it would take to be a state-of-the-art institute for international and public affairs. That vision has been translated into a functionally fantastic and aesthetically appealing facility."
June 20, 2019 India New England News
In an interview, Professor Ashutosh Varshney discusses India's national elections and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's victory. "As prime minister, Modi styled himself as 'the watchman of the country.'"
June 18, 2019 Chronicle of Higher Education
This is a Q&A on race and freedom of speech on college campuses with Glenn Loury, a professor of social sciences.
June 17, 2019 USA Today
A new study from the Costs of War project shows that the U.S. military emits more greenhouse gases each year than many countries, including Sweden and Portugal.
June 14, 2019 The Atlantic
This column by Professor of Economics Emily Oster examines "unfunded parenting mandates," or parenting decrees that require an unreasonable amount of time and effort to undertake.
June 12, 2019 The Conversation
Neta C. Crawford, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, describes new research in The Conversation, "I agree with the military and national security experts who contend that climate change should be front and center in U.S. national security debates."
June 11, 2019 The Hill
Senior Fellow Richard Boucher in The Hill, "If we can wire the world our way, China will have to negotiate to fit in. Dividing the world into the U.S. sphere and the Chinese sphere leaves us as isolated as them."
June 11, 2019 The Washington Post
Jeff Colgan in The Washington Post, "Given the huge U.S. network of overseas military bases, the Department of Defense has traditionally seen the issue of environmental liability as a slippery slope, and takes a hard line against assuming responsibility."
June 10, 2019 Brown Political Review
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer sat down with the Brown Political Review for an interview, saying "My training is not from being a scholar, but rather from being out in the world and working as a journalist."
June 10, 2019 Foreign Policy
Associate Professor Jeff Colgan is mentioned in an article on national oil companies. "Jeff Colgan, a prominent scholar on the topic, has found that oil is a leading cause of war and can exacerbate conflict in multiple ways."
June 10, 2019 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg recently joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss impeachment, the Senate, and the filibuster.
June 10, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on the possibility of Democrats getting President Trump's tax returns, saying "...once you move into 2020 and begin to approach the election, the potential is there that Trump could just run out the clock."
June 6, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "For most of the 20th century, the United States was strong enough to keep allies in line and rivals at bay. Today, however, other countries are not so easily intimidated. Many have lost confidence in the US."
June 6, 2019 VICE News
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg comments on whether House Democrats will subpoena Special Coounsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress, saying "I don’t think the public understanding of the Mueller report ever recovered from Barr rolling out his summary, and then leaving it unchallenged for over a month."
June 5, 2019 NPR
Economist John Friedman comments on the plans Democratic presidential hopefuls have for education, saying "There's definitely been a turn against a set of ideas in education that we've been championing as effective."
June 3, 2019 The Guardian
Chair of the Political Science department, Wendy Schiller, comments on President Trump's abundance of supporters willing to repeat and endorse all of his claims. "The Republican establishment will push back through Fox, the Wall Street Journal and other outlets. The titans of the economy will put up with stuff only so long."