December 2, 2020 Seattle Times
Emily Oster provided commentary in this article around her national COVID-19 database saying, "Schools are opening and yet we don’t seem to have any coordinated way to collect and share information about what’s working, what’s not working, how risky are schools."
December 2, 2020 HuffPost
Patrick Heller in the Huffington Post, "This isn’t magic...The kind of investments required – in high-quality education, health care and safety nets ― are relatively straightforward. Making them effectively is the challenge."
December 1, 2020 South Florida Sun Sentinel
This article references the research and COVID-19 tracking efforts of Emily Oster.
November 30, 2020 Washington Post
Emily Oster provided commentary in this article on COVID safety in the classroom.
November 30, 2020 The Hill
This article references the research and tracking efforts of Emily Oster.
November 30, 2020 The Library of Economics and Liberty
Emily Oster talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopening schools in a pandemic.
November 30, 2020 CBS Baltimore
In this piece, Stephanie Savell provides commentary on the transition of military defense from the Trump administration to Biden's.
November 30, 2020 NHPR
In this interview, Emily Oster provides data-driven insight to New Hampshire school districts currently thinking about transitioning to remote learning due to COVID-19.
November 27, 2020 Financial Times
Jeff Cogan provided commentary in this article, which also cites the Climate Solutions Lab at Watson: "There's so much that a federal government can do on climate change across the various agencies, not just at the state department, or the Treasury or the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Federal Reserve, at all of them...We should not forget how powerful the president can be."
November 27, 2020 Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Biden has a chance to end the longstanding practice of handing out ambassadorships as political rewards. The temptation to continue, however, is strong. Biden is unlikely to resist it any more successfully than his predecessors."
November 27, 2020 CNBC
Senior Fellow Heidi Heitkamp penned this op-ed on how the mismanagement of the IRS has had a disproportionate impact on working Americans.
November 25, 2020 CNN
Emily Oster said she is surprised to hear that the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relying on the Covid-19 School Response Dashboard, a website she started to promote in-person learning for schoolchildren.
November 24, 2020 Bloomberg
Wendy Schiller appeared in this Bloomberg radio interview.
November 24, 2020 NHPR
Emily Oster in NHPR, "I think we need to say, let's draw some guidelines about what we would see and when."
November 24, 2020 Fox
Emily Oster appeared in this interview segment on school closures due to COVID-19.
November 23, 2020 Insider
In this piece, Emily Oster provides information on the closing of schools in New York and the debate on why it's happening.
November 23, 2020 PBS
This film features interviews with David Kertzer on Pope Pius XI's handling of the Holocaust during World War II.
November 23, 2020 Information
Mark Blyth in this article, "When the pandemic subsides, the fight for the economy begins in earnest."
November 23, 2020 WXXI News
In this interview segment, Stephen Kinzer delves into CIA mind control - focusing specifically on the use of LSD.
November 23, 2020 The Atlantic
Watson Director, Edward Steinfeld penned this article on the power of leadership.