How India's Covid-19 crisis diminished Narendra Modi (commentary by Ashutosh Varshney)
May 13, 2021 Financial Times
Ashutosh Varshney provided commentary in this article.
News Archive 2021
With Afghanistan Withdrawal Underway, New Report Reveals Costs of Post-9/11 Wars for US Allies (Costs of War report cited)
May 13, 2021 Common Dreams
This article includes commentary from Stephanie Savell and cites a visual essay featuring new Costs of War data.
Bloomberg Daybreak: May 13, 2021 (interview with Wendy Schiller)
May 13, 2021 Bloomberg
Wendy Schiller appeared in this radio segment of Bloomberg Daybreak to discuss the future of the GOP.
Rekha Basu: My mother warned that America's 1980s allies threatened women in Afghanistan. They've continued to, as our enemies. (Costs of War report cited)
May 12, 2021 Des Moines Register
This article cites the Costs of War project at Watson, referencing the amount of money spent on post-9/11 wars.
British soldiers were more than twice as likely to die during peak of Afghan War than US troops, report reveals (Costs of War report cited)
May 12, 2021 Daily Mail
This article cites the Costs of War project, specifically noting the number of British casualties during the peak of allied deployment in Afghanistan.
Is it safe? Parents worry about risks as schools, camps reopen (commentary by Emily Oster)
May 11, 2021 TODAY
Emily Oster in TODAY, "I think parents are excited about some return to normalcy but also finding everything very confusing. The messaging around kids is really split between ‘they are low risk’ and ‘they're unvaccinated so you still can't do anything..."
The Biden administration's domestic approach to foreign policy (written by J. Brian Atwood)
May 11, 2021 The Hill
Brian Atwood penned this article on Biden's plans to help restore America's foreign policy, with nods to "intermestic policies" from past leaders in office.
Study links school reopening and COVID spread in Texas — before vaccines made it safer (commentary by Emily Oster)
May 11, 2021 Chalkbeat
Emily Oster in Chalkbeat, "The overall picture shows a change in a lot of other things at the same time — work hours, for example — and although that could be a result of school opens, it may also be that other restrictions changed."
With masks on, three feet is just as safe as six feet apart for COVID-19 (Emily Oster cited)
May 10, 2021 SciTech Daily
Emily Oster contributed to a study that found no substantial difference in the number of cases of COVID-19 among either students or staff in school districts that implemented a distancing policy of three feet versus six feet between students.
Why it's hard to get good projects going (written by Marc Dunkelman)
May 10, 2021 Boston Globe
Marc Dunkelman penned this column on America's absence of a centralized figure empowered to cut through the objections and force bureaucracies to serve a common mission.
Op-Ed: How anti-democratic politics make India’s COVID calamity worse (written by Prerna Singh)
May 10, 2021 Los Angeles Times
Prerna Singh penned this article on the current crises in India, including a deadly COVID-19 outbreak and the erosion of democracy.
Washington is playing a losing game with China (written by Chas Freeman)
May 10, 2021 East Asia Forum
Chas Freeman penned this article stating, "There are many issues that cannot be addressed without Chinese participation. Chinese capacity needs to be leveraged to serve those US interests."
The human-focused startups of the hellfire
May 10, 2021 Tech Crunch
This article cites the collaboration between the Watson Institute and Project HOPE to train 100,000 healthcare on the new virus.
In Defense of Liberal Conspirators (Costs of War report cited)
May 7, 2021 The New Republic
This article cites the Costs of War project at Watson stating, "...Over five hundred thousand people have perished as a result of the war on terror, not counting casualties in Syria."
The remarkable transformation of Germany’s Green Party (written by Stephen Kinzer)
May 7, 2021 Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer penned this article on Germany's Green Party rising to power.
Anthony Fauci on ending the Covid seesaw (commentary by Emily Oster)
May 6, 2021 Politico
This article includes commentary from Professor Emily Oster, and references her "follow the science" research.
The link between great power and great suffering — from Mao’s China to Modi’s India (written by Ashutosh Varshney)
May 6, 2021 Indian Express
In this article, Ashutosh Varshney compares the current Modi regime to Mao's China.
The covid recovery still has a K shape (Opportunity Insights cited)
May 5, 2021 CNBC
This article draws on data by Opportunity Insights, co-directed by John Friedman.
Bush Says GOP Can’t ‘Win Anything’ If It’s Just A ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism’ Party (Costs of War report cited)
May 5, 2021 Daily Wire
This article references the Costs of War project in reference to the amount of money spent on post-9/11 wars.
How Indian Americans Got the President’s Ear (commentary by Prerna Singh)
May 5, 2021 Politico
Prerna Singh in Politico, "This is a man-made crisis...and that man is Modi."