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October 21, 2022 Stars and Stripes
The Costs of War study cited in Stars and Stripes found that service members are four times more likely to die by suicide than in combat.
October 20, 2022 RealClearDefense
Co-Director of the Costs of War project Stephanie Savell discusses the goals and purpose of The Costs of War Project in an interview with RealClearDefense.
October 18, 2022 Vox
Professor of Economics Mark Blyth discusses the overturning of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's recent economic policies for Vox.
October 18, 2022 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney writes for The Indian Express, "Something awful about 'new India' was revealed in Kheda, disturbingly familiar now but quite unknown in the first six decades of the post-Independence period."
October 18, 2022
Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney recently published a paper in The Journal of Democracy titled, "How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy."
October 14, 2022 The Conversation
In this interview with The Conversation, Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb explains the best ways to use tutoring to help students get back on track in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 13, 2022 GBH News
Dany Bahar comments for GBH News, “If there’s anything wrong with America and immigration, it’s that we need more of it."
October 1, 2022 Vox
Mark Blyth comments for Vox, “The pound falling in value is the market’s response to realizing that the risk inherent in the asset is much higher than hitherto appreciated thanks to Trussonomics."
September 29, 2022
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Science Magazine titled, "Tackling Unlit and Inefficient Gas Flaring," that explains how emissions from flaring threaten the global climate and the health of local communities.
September 21, 2022 Responsible Statecraft
Report written for the Costs of War project by Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein on the long history of threat inflation in U.S. foreign policy, Russian military weakness, and the implications of the war in Ukraine for U.S. military spending, cited in Responsible Statecraft.
September 15, 2022
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently authored a paper in collaboration with the Costs of War project titled, "Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending."
September 14, 2022 The Boston Globe
Chilean President Gabriel Boric supports a new proposed draft of the country's constitution, Stephen Kinzer writes for The Boston Globe.
September 9, 2022 The Boston Globe
Professor of Economics Emily Oster explains to The Boston Globe, that that no amount of training or investment in virtual education would make it an adequate replacement for an in-person classroom.
September 9, 2022
Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Liana Woskie named a 2022 Guggenheim Emerging Scholar for her dissertation project titled, "Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare."
September 9, 2022 The Print
"Modi's India is still an electoral democracy but the loner Hindu nationalists remain in power, the weaker it'll become as a liberal democracy," Professor Ashutosh Varshney writes for The Print.
September 8, 2022 The New Yorker
In an interview with The New Yorker, Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb discusses the biggest takeaways on the low test results of the National Assessment of Education Progress report released last week.
August 20, 2022 The Daily Star
The Daily Star article co-authored by Arvind Subramanian explains how disruptions in the economy will most likely transform the global trading system, rather than shrink it, with the impact varying across the countries.
August 10, 2022 Global Connections
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon joins Robert Siegel on Global Connections to discuss many factors in the uncertain future of our energy supply.
July 29, 2022
Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb among nine research teams at Brown University to be awarded research support from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund.
July 11, 2022
Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, co-edited by Mark Blyth, was recently published by Oxford University Press.