News - Quoted News - Quoted Prof. Richard Samuels quoted in NYTimes "Why the Governing Party Election Is the Main Event in Japan" September 28, 2021 Motoko Rich The New York Times Vipin Narang cited in The Washington Post: The September tests “are consistent with what we would expect for a maturing nuclear power seeking survivability and penetrability.” September 28, 2021 Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Andrew Jeong The Washington Post Prof. Melissa Nobles research cited in "U.S. census racial categories have shifted over centuries. How will the jump in multiracials affect politics?" September 23, 2021 Danielle Casarez Lemi and Sara Sadhwani The Monkey Cage “Under the terms of the historic deal, the US will share nuclear submarine technology with Australia. The two countries in some ways are in a standoff over what the terms of their future relationship should be.” —Taylor Fravel September 16, 2021 NPR “Attack submarines are big deal, and they send a big message...This would be hard to imagine five years ago, and it would have been impossible 10 years ago. And that says a lot about China’s behavior in the region.” —Vipin Narang September 15, 2021 David E. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs The New York Times “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 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Prof. Richard Samuels quoted in NYTimes "Why the Governing Party Election Is the Main Event in Japan" September 28, 2021 Motoko Rich The New York Times
Vipin Narang cited in The Washington Post: The September tests “are consistent with what we would expect for a maturing nuclear power seeking survivability and penetrability.” September 28, 2021 Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Andrew Jeong The Washington Post
Prof. Melissa Nobles research cited in "U.S. census racial categories have shifted over centuries. How will the jump in multiracials affect politics?" September 23, 2021 Danielle Casarez Lemi and Sara Sadhwani The Monkey Cage
“Under the terms of the historic deal, the US will share nuclear submarine technology with Australia. The two countries in some ways are in a standoff over what the terms of their future relationship should be.” —Taylor Fravel September 16, 2021 NPR
“Attack submarines are big deal, and they send a big message...This would be hard to imagine five years ago, and it would have been impossible 10 years ago. And that says a lot about China’s behavior in the region.” —Vipin Narang September 15, 2021 David E. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs The New York Times
“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
