2022 In the News

Mark Blyth comments for CNBC, "The U.K. is a heavily consumption-based economy, and such a shift is equivalent to a tax on consumption. That means less fuel in the economic engine. The U.K. already has low growth and even lower productivity growth."

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein explains for Nikkei Asia, that "scholarly studies show appreciation of dangers of nuclear confrontation."

Professor of Economics Emily Oster interviewed for NPR's All Things Considered on the opinion piece she authored in the Atlantic about "pandemic amnesty."

Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary for the Philadelphia Inquirere on the Senate race in Pennsylvania.

Jeff Colgan comments for The Providence Journal, "Inflation has ben running roughly 9%, and that's true not just in U.S., but most of the G7 nations, so to say that it is what happened in Congress ignores what is happening everywhere."

Dany Bahar writes for The Forward, "the rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir spells the end of Israel as a light unto the nations."

Assistant Professor Jonathan Collins comments for Fast Company, on the increase of heated and hysterical arguments at public hearings, community and school board meetings.

Lyle Goldstein writes for Asia Times, "while often posturing as uninvolved, China is benefitting economically, militarily and diplomatically from the Ukraine War."

Stephen Kinzer writes for The Boston Globe, "So far the alliance known as BRICS hasn't been greater than the sum of its parts. But it's taking stephs to increase its power."

Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary for Associated Press on the upcoming elections for Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District.

In this opinion piece for The Atlantic, Professor of Economics Emily Oster argues that we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein comments for Jacobin, "I have confirmed some years ago from a source that they didn't know Russia had this weapon."

Emily Oster comments for The Guardian, "it's not just that we don't have a lot of data about that but that it would be difficult to learn very much from it."

Emily Oster comments for the Los Angeles Times, "There's a tremendous amount that we don't understand. This is not a single-factorial case."

Emily Oster comments for The 74, "the general patterns are that the losses are big, they're much bigger in math than in reading, and they're much bigger in more vulnerable kids."

Senior Fellow J. Brian Atwood writes for The Hill, that a new modern form of populism is threatening our institutions and democracy.

AP News cites a 2022 study by Emily Oster that states kids whose schools met mostly online in the 2020-2021 school year performed 13 percentage points lower in math and 8 percentage points lower in reading compared with schools meeting mostly in person.

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.

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.

Visiting professor Lyle Goldstein comments for Jacobin, "I don't think people are nearly alarmed enough."

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Dany Bahar comments on the decision to close the border for U.S. News and World Report, "I think it hasn't worked with people that are fleeing. These are people that are fleeing. Nobody chooses for leisure to cross the Darien Gap."

Director of the Climate Solutions Lab Jeff Colgan provided commentary on President Joe Biden's remarks on current U.S.-Saudi relations for BBC News.

Professor of Economics Mark Blyth discusses the overturning of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's recent economic policies for Vox.

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."

Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller explains how Democrats and Republicans are presenting their messaging on the economy ahead of the midterm elections on Bloomberg Daybreak.

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.

Dany Bahar comments for GBH News, "If there's anything wrong with America and immigration, it's that we need more of it."

Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer writes for the Boston Globe, "President Biden has evidently understood the fundamental lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is that opponents in a game of nuclear chicken should talk and deal, not bluster and threaten."

Jeff Colgan comments for Stars and Stripes, "Oil has always glued the two countries together. Lately, however, the relationship seems to be under as much strain as ever."

Dany Bahar comments for The New York Times, "There's growing realization that there has to be a change in the U.S. policy toward Venezuela. You can no longer ignore that it has been a failure."

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy Reid Pauly offered commentary for Yahoo News on Russia's use of nuclear threats.

Director of the Climate Solutions Lab Jeff Colgan was interviewed by The Washington Post about how his book, "Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order" helps explain the current OPEC controversy.

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs John Friedman has been selected as one of the 25 inaugural members of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity.

James Green offers commentary on the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil.

Wendy Schiller offers commentary on Rhode Islanders' views on abortion.

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."

Dany Bahar on Brookings, "This controversy should serve as a reminder that America's debate on immigration needs more policy and less politics."

Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe, "Iran's emerging generation is not disposed to accept this governing system indefinitely. If the government does not allow space for reform, there will be more protests."

Jonathan Collins on Kappan Online, "At the most fundamental level, democratic approaches to urban school reform are important not only for practical policy purposes but also for more symbolic reasons."

Jeff Colgan in Foreign Policy, "As Europe struggles to stabilize its economy, the United States should support it when possible, including by exporting some of its energy resources, such as LNG."

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein explains for The Chicago Tribune, that the president's recent statements may impact US-China relations.

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.

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein penned this column for Nikkei Asia, on how escalation risk grows as the U.S. and China build bigger and more sophisticated military systems.

Regular processing of asylum-seekers has been suspended since March 2020 so the number we are seeing now are much higher, Associate Professor Ieva Jusionyte explains for Newsweek.

"Current pro-Taiwan advocates are putting the very foundation of US-China relations at grave risk," Lyle Goldstein comments for Asia Times.

If the U.S. and NATO increase their military spending and conventional forces in Europe, the weakness of Russian conventional military forces could prompt Moscow to rely more heavily on its nuclear forces, according to the latest report from the Costs of War Project cited in Business Insider.

Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary for The Providence Journal, on the gubernatorial race in Rhode Island.