April 15, 2019 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Professor Emily Oster sat down with Penny Johnston of ABC's Babytalk to discuss what advice is worth taking during pregnancy.
April 12, 2019 Providence Business News
Providence Business News sat down with Provost Richard M. Locke, who was recently awarded a $100,000 grant for his project, "The Future of Work and Its Implications for Higher Education." "Understanding the shape and impact of technological change is a chance for universities to improve the education we provide to our students and the research that we produce to benefit society."
April 12, 2019 Common Dreams
Jessica Bram Murphy '19, a student in Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer's International Journalism seminar, in Common Dreams, "The consequences of the tragedy of 9/11 have multiplied across continents. Guantánamo Bay is reflective of a false imperviousness, an illusion of immunity to the rest of the world."
April 11, 2019 All Things Risk
Fellow Sam Wilkin joined the All Things Risk podcast to discuss populism and its reach around the world.
April 11, 2019 The Atlantic
Research by Professor John Friedman's think tank, Opportunity Insights, is cited in an article on the recent college admissions scandal. "Research published by Opportunity Insights ... has found that roughly three dozen of the country’s “elite” colleges enroll more students from households in the top 1 percent of the income scale than they do students from the bottom 60 percent of that scale."
April 9, 2019 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "In India, populism as a term has generally been used for fiscal handouts for the less privileged — loan waivers, poverty alleviation schemes, etc. But that is not how the term is analysed in political theory."
April 8, 2019 The Conversation
Postdoctoral Fellow Aileen Teague in The Conversation, "If Trump ever follows through on his threat and puts up a closed sign at the southern border, it wouldn’t be the first time. Twice in the last half-century the U.S. has tried to use the border to force Mexico to bend to America’s will. The ruse failed both times."
April 8, 2019 GoLocalProv
James N. Green, Director of the Brazil Initiative, will be the guest speaker at Providence's Committee on Foreign Relations meeting. "Green will talk about the political and economic forces that have led to the election of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro."
April 5, 2019 USA Today
Research by the Costs of War Project are cited in an op-ed by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT). "It is time for Congress to ask whether, nearly 18 years after 9/11, we really want to continue to be involved in these wars for another 18 or more. According to a recent study by the Costs of War Project at Brown University, the War on Terror will have cost American taxpayers almost $5 trillion through Fiscal Year 2019."
April 5, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "The delusion that Russians hate us and are working assiduously to rob us of our democratic birthright is dangerous."
April 3, 2019 KJZZ
Sociologist Andrew Schrank joined Phoenix's KJZZ to discuss disaster relief funding for Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
April 3, 2019 The Guardian
Wendy Schiller, Chair of the political science department, comments on recent damaging news reports about former Vice President Joe Biden. "It’s a generational obstacle for Biden because the good stuff he’s done is unknown and the bad stuff he’s done is on video."
March 29, 2019 The New York Times
Professor Eric Patashnik's article on Obamacare is featured in this article on Republicans' new fight over the Affordable Care Act. "Well, political scientists have some interesting thoughts about the reasons the G.O.P. won’t just throw in the towel on the A.C.A."
March 28, 2019 Associated Press
Professor Peter Andreas comments on the United States' history of intellectual piracy, saying "Only after becoming the leading industrial power did it become a champion of intellectual-property protections."
March 28, 2019 E&E News
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon comments on efforts to curb methane emissions from major oil and gas companies. "It is a really important problem, and we're just starting to get a handle on what it is and how to fix it."
March 27, 2019 The Gaurdian
In The Gaurdian, James N. Green says, "Bolsonaro’s position on the dictatorship made him the equivalent of a Holocaust denier."
March 26, 2019 Washington Post
Columnist praises the "vital work" of the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
March 25, 2019 Newsweek
This article cites figures from the Costs of War project stating, "...the U.S. has spent approximately $6 trillion on related conflicts that have killed at least 500,000 people."
March 22, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "American sanctions are intended to send a clear message. We are telling Venezuelans that they will live in ever-intensifying pain until they somehow rid themselves and us of President Nicolas Maduro."
March 21, 2019 CNN
Jeff Colgan is featured in CNN's video explaining the relationship between OPEC and oil prices.