Quoted

“The president alone possesses the sole authority to order a nuclear launch, and no one can legally stop him or her. Despite reports that Pelosi received assurances that there are safeguards in place in the event the president of the United States wants to launch a nuclear weapon, any such meaningful or effective safeguards would be illegal.”

—Vipin Narang

September 14, 2021 Elizabeth N. Saunders The Washington Post

Prof. Charles Stewart's research backs good news, "that the fraud rate among those [mail-in] ballots is “0.00006 percent of total votes cast.”

September 13, 2021 Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC

“[South Korea] is the only country to develop SLBMs without first developing nuclear weapons, so it makes one wonder.”

—Vipin Narang

September 9, 2021 Morten Soendergaard Larsen Foreign Policy

“A conventional SLBM is crazy expensive but may have a logic (survivable large conventional second strike etc). This is just about the uniqueness of that possibility.”

—Vipin Narang

September 7, 2021 Alexander Ward and Quint Forgey Politico

“In the short term, there are meaningful gains to be had by sort of slowing down the growth of the program. And Yongbyon gives you an opportunity to do that. I think the question for the Biden administration or any administration going forward … is whether we can get Yongbyon, the whole complex, back on the table.”

—Vipin Narang

September 3, 2021 Jonathan Custodio and Alexander Ward Politico

Prof. Fravel in ABS-CBN News "In this country, there is great debate going forward that’s still unsettled on what the future relationship should look like"

September 2, 2021 ABS-CBN News

Charles Stewart discussing private funding's role in some 2020 elections in CNN

August 28, 2021 Fredreka Schouten CNN

“Regardless of how you poll, voters like a requirement for photo ID...I mean it's kind of a no-brainer for a large swath of the American public ... including most Democrats.”

—Charles Stewart III

August 28, 2021 Miles Park NPR

“The ‘informatization’ of weapons makes them more precise and lethal, and—when networked together—enables the unified, simultaneous command of disparate units and forces.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

August 27, 2021 Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula USAF (Ret.) and Heather Penney Air Force Magazine

“It’s an important moment when one significant power is passing or catching up in overall capabilities with another significant power.”

—Barry Posen

August 23, 2021 Jordan Michael Smith The New Republic

Prof Narang cited in "Could Cyberwar Save Lives?"

August 23, 2021 Cybèle C. Greenberg The New York Times

Charles Stewart in The Guardian, "The 2020 US election was a remarkable success"

August 19, 2021 Sam Levine The Guardian

Narang comments on drills between U.S. and ‘perfidious’ South, in the Washington Post

August 10, 2021 The Washington Post

Prof. Berger's research is featured in Reuters, "The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America's small and mid-sized factories"

August 2, 2021 Timothy Aeppel Reuters

Prof. Narang quoted in "A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy"

July 28, 2021 The New York Times

Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts: includes Profs. Posen and Christia + alumni Daalder and Lalwani, regarding their views on Afghanistan ⁦ ⁩

June 22, 2021 Foreign Affairs

“It seems to suggest that Pyongyang thinks the ball is in the U.S. court at the moment, and it is waiting to see how the Biden administration outreach goes.”

—Vipin Narang

June 18, 2021 Sangmi Cha Reuters

N.Korea's Kim says to prepare for 'both dialogue and confrontation' with U.S.

Prof. Berger in the spotlight in the Boston Globe "Q&A: The missing piece of the puzzle in manufacturing"

June 11, 2021 Jonathan Schlefer The Boston Globe

Congress is on the verge of spending billions to boost high-tech industries. MIT’s Suzanne Berger knows what it’ll take to pull that off.

“...the research on voter confidence tells us two things... If you want to increase someone’s confidence in an election, you make sure they have a good experience when they vote, and you make sure their candidate wins.”

—Charles Stewart III

June 3, 2021 David A. Graham The Atlantic

“It would be a great offer but there is no way that Kim Jong Un would ever accept them.There would be paranoia about what would be delivered by the US and there is also the possibility that China could be providing vaccines quietly to North Korean elites.”

—Vipin Narang

May 11, 2021 Kylie Atwood CNN

Prof. Stewart and PhD candidate Jesse Clark's new paper cited in Bloomberg Op-Ed.

April 28, 2021 Stephen L. Carter Bloomberg News

A just-released paper by MIT political scientists Jesse T. Clark and Charles Stewart III drills down into data on the topic and turns up some remarkable findings about voter confidence in the wake of the 2020 election. In particular, although the gap between the two sides' belief that the contest was fair is by far the largest on record, the explanation may not be what one expects.

Fravel quoted in "The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor"

March 29, 2021 Vittoria Elliott and Nilesh Christopher Rest of World

MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) cited in recent Vox article "How Republicans’ efforts to restrict mail voting could backfire"

March 26, 2021 Brittany Gibson Vox

Narang quoted in BBC News on North Korea's new tactile missile launch

March 25, 2021 Laura Bicker BBC News

Narang quoted in Reuters "Japan says North Korea ballistic missile launch threatens peace"

March 24, 2021 Josh Smith, Antoni Slodkowski Reuters