Jonathan Collins writes for Kappan, "Should schools even have policing? It's a crucial question because the answers that swarm before us remind us that school policing is a political tool."
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Global Village Space
The mockery of Muslim rights in India (comments by Ashutosh Varshney)
Ashutosh Varshney comments for Global Village Space, "The longer Hindu nationalists are in power, the greater the change will be to Muslims' status and the harder it will be to reverse such changes."
The Washington Post article references a study of state test scores by Professor of Economics Emily Oster.
Senior Fellow E. Isaac Dovere makes predictions about the 2024 presidential election in a piece written for CNN.
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller comments for The Guardian, "He starts out in a weaker position than he did in 2016 in that voters are very familiar with the Trump show both in government and out of government."
The Costs of War research cited in Common Dreams, "Unmanned aerial drone and other airstrikes by U.S. forces also continue in nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria during the 21-year, open-ended War on Terror—in which more than 387,000 civilians have been killed."
Bloomberg Daybreak Podcast
Bloomberg Daybreak: November 18, 2022 (interview with Wendy Schiller)
On Bloomberg Daybreak podcast, Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller discusses Nancy Pelosi's decision to step down as U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In a recent piece for Counter Punch the Costs of War project's report cited, 9.2 million Iraqis were internally displaced or refugees abroad, as of 2021, all because of a war based on lies.
Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb comments for EdSource that tutoring, either online or in-person, is the best way to accelerate student learning.
Wendy Schiller comments on the fight to raise the debt ceiling for BuzzFeed News, "That's the single biggest thing that affects everybody's lives. It affects everybody's retirement, it affects Social Security, it affects every bond issued by the federal government."
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein comments for Foreign Affairs, "It would be reckless to adopt this policy of 'strategic clarity.' In fact, this move away from 'strategic ambiguity' might well spark the war that it is aiming to prevent."
Tyler Jost offered comments for Vox, on the upcoming meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein explains for The Spectator that US-China relations, "will require a robust follow-up and a determination on both sides to break with the new tendencies toward vitriolic critiques and ever-escalating competitions in all domains."
Stephen Kinzer writes for The Boston Globe, "While brave young women are being shot by polic in Iran, their compatriots in America are being attacked for even suggesting negotiations with the regime."
In this TV interview with WJAR, Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller discusses the 2022 midterm election results.
Jeffrey Colgan comments for The Japan Times, on the impact of the midterm election results for President Joe Biden's climate policies.
Senior Fellow Ambassador Chas Freeman explains for Responsible Statecraft, how world's leaders, including Washington, have lost their grip on the Middle East.
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller comments for The Boston Globe, "the national Republican Party has become literally unpalatable to independent voters in New England."
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller provided commentary for The Daily Telegraph on President Joe Biden's approval rating.
The Providence Journal
5 takeaways from the 2022 RI Election results (comments by Wendy Schiller)
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller comments for The Providence Journal on what Republicans need to do to convince voters that they would be better off under Republicans than Democrats.
Director of Climate Solutions Lab Jeff Colgan comments for Grist, "It's really been remarkable how much climate change has risen on the political agenda."
Director of the Taubman Center Wendy Schiller interviewed on The Public's Radio about midterm election results in Rhode Island.
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."
Professor of Economics Emily Oster discussed understanding the nuances of choice-making in parenthood during an interview for The Atlantic podcast How to Build a Happy Life.
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein explains for Nikkei Asia, that "scholarly studies show appreciation of dangers of nuclear confrontation."
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary for the Philadelphia Inquirere on the Senate race in Pennsylvania.
Professor of Economics Emily Oster interviewed for NPR's All Things Considered on the opinion piece she authored in the Atlantic about "pandemic amnesty."
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."
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.
Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary for Associated Press on the upcoming elections for Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
U.S. News and World Report
Biden Gambit Looks to Relieve Border Pressure as Election Day Nears (comments by Dany Bahar)
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."
Brown Daily Herald
POLITICO White House bureau chief traces 'big lie' at book event
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The Indian Express
A dark path goes from Kheda to New India (written by Ashutosh Varshney)
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 Economics Mark Blyth discusses the overturning of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's recent economic policies for Vox.