April 30, 2019 The Washington Post
Assistant Professor Robert Blair in The Washington Post, " Beyond the lives lost and livelihoods destroyed, the Liberian civil wars shattered the already-strained relationship between citizens and the Liberian government, especially the police and courts."
April 29, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, " If the US shares guilt for the Rwandan genocide, it lies not in our refusal to invade. It is to be found in the way ambition and politics came to obscure humanity, both in Washington and at the United Nations."
April 26, 2019 VICE News
Richard Arenberg comments on President Trump's vow to fight all congressional subpoenas following the Mueller Report, saying "I believe the Congress has the Constitution on their side, and in the end, they will prevail. But Trump may be able to just wait out the clock."
April 26, 2019 Reuters
Senior Fellow Richard Boucher comments on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's "ethos" statement he made in hopes of boosting morale. "Nothing speaks like leading with diplomacy and if we are going to start doing that then we don’t really need ... (a new) statement."
April 26, 2019 U.S. News & World Report
Professor Cathy Lutz comments on the number of security contractors that the U.S. military employs in Afghanistan, saying "The main problem with contractors of all sorts is there's just not enough attention to what they're doing. That's not been reported out in a clear way to anybody's satisfaction for all these years."
April 26, 2019 PBS' White House Chronicle
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar joins Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello of PBS' White House Chronicle to discuss privacy in the era of megadata.
April 26, 2019 The Washington Post
Economist John Friedman comments on how the recent college admissions scandal highlights the advantages some wealthy families have in the college admissions process. "The American Dream has been distressingly out of reach for a lot of people...The disparities in access are really quite striking."
April 24, 2019 BBC
Jeff Colgan joined BBC's Business Daily to discuss "why he thinks sectors like insurance, property and oil and gas are overpriced given the threat of climate change."
April 23, 2019 The Public's Radio
Political Science Chair Wendy Schiller comments on the large amount of money that U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised for his re-election campaign. "So it was either overly cautionary on his part, or he was scared of something in that race, because the number is large for the size of the state and the fact that it was his second re-election campaign."
April 23, 2019 The Providence Journal
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, spoke on her foreign policy and the possibility of nuclear war at the Watson Institute on April 22.
April 22, 2019 C-SPAN
Stephanie Savell, Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, joined C-SPAN to discuss "America's expanding role in the global war against terrorism."
April 19, 2019 The Guardian
Taubman Center Affiliate and Professor of Political Science, Corey Brettschneider in The Guardian, "Impeachment and prosecution of this president, of course, require building on Mueller’s evidence. He has given us a huge head start. It is now up to Congress to look into whether his actions amount to obstruction."
April 19, 2019 The New York Times
Economist Emily Oster in The New York Times, "Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over. You can and should learn about the risks and benefits of your parenting choices, but in the end you have to also think about your family preferences — about what works for you."
April 18, 2019 Bloomberg Daybreak
Political scientist Wendy Schiller joined Bloomberg Daybreak to discuss the release of the Mueller Report.
April 18, 2019 Associated Press
Emily Oster, professor of economics, has written a data-driven parenting guide covering the first three years of life, Cribsheet, out this month from PenguinPress. "This is really a book about decision making and that is what economists study."
April 17, 2019 News 18
Anthropologist Sarah Besky comments on the tea garden workers in Darjeeling and the Indian elections. "...the importing of the ‘kindly rhetoric of colonial plantation management into India’s Constitution’ was that these tea gardens function like states within states."
April 17, 2019 Washington Times
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer comments on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's administration and crackdown on critics. "If we had a political system like ‘Yes or no on your president,’ Ortega would certainly lose. But that’s not the way [it] works."
April 17, 2019 America Magazine
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman sat down with America Magazine to discuss the provisional Vatican-Beijing agreement and Pope Francis' engagement with moderate Islamic leaders. "Francis is pursuing a strategy of creative outreach across cultural differences typical of the Jesuits, fortunately. We need to have peace between religious entities. The consequences of allowing hatred to prevail are ruinous."
April 16, 2019 Libertarianism.org
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer joined Libertarianism.org to answer the question, what is America's role in the world?
April 16, 2019 The Providence Journal
Next week's Watson-sponsored event with Congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is mentioned. "Rhode Island will see one of its first visits by a presidential candidate next week, with a year still to go before the state's primary."