Quoted “People wildly overestimate the amount of abuse and fraud in various kinds of social programs. But it just strikes people as plausible.” —Andrea L. Campbell January 5, 2022 Ian Prasad Philbrick The New York Times “I do see the Hayashi appointment as part of Prime Minister Kishida's balancing act.” —Richard Samuels November 10, 2021 The Japan Times “Those who say China can invade Taiwan conflate changed rhetoric with changed capability.” —M. Taylor Fravel November 9, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate “Hypersonic glide vehicles… travel at lower trajectories and may manoeuvre in flight, which makes them challenging to track and destroy.” —Prof. M. Taylor Fravel November 1, 2021 Helena Sutan Brinkwire “It empowers those who are looking for continuity and/or expansion of missile defense or nuclear forces.” —Vipin Narang October 22, 2021 Julian Berger The Guardian “It underscores China’s determination to strengthen its deterrent, especially as amid the steep decline in U.S.-China relations and long-standing concerns about missile defense.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 19, 2021 Luis Martinez ABC News “The most important element of [U.S.-China] competition globally is economics and economic capabilities, and not military power and military capabilities, which makes it different from the Cold War.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 19, 2021 Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Zachary Basu Axios Prof. Narang in Politico "One reason why the U.S. pursues counterforce and missile defense capabilities is precisely to force adversaries to invest a lot of time and resources to develop crazy experimental systems." October 18, 2021 Alexander Ward and Quint Forgey Politico Professor Berinsky's research is cited in WBUR's Cognoscenti, "Massachusetts is not the democratic bastion you think it is" October 18, 2021 Kristina Mensik WBUR Cognoscenti “Hypersonic glide vehicles . . . fly at lower trajectories and can manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to track and destroy.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 16, 2021 Demetri Sevastopulo & Kathrin Hille The Financial Times “More generally, Kim wants to show us that his deterrent is not only ‘complete,’ but that he continues to work on improving survivability and penetrability against both [South Korea] and the U.S., like ‘normal’ nuclear powers do.” —Vipin Narang October 11, 2021 Michelle Ye Hee Lee The Washington Post “These planes are never on a vector to intrude into Taiwan’s airspace.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 6, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate “It’s absolutely unprecedented in the modern history of these flights that China has run into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone. Each day breaks the preceding record for the total number of flights on a single day.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 5, 2021 Julian Borger The guardian 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 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 »
“People wildly overestimate the amount of abuse and fraud in various kinds of social programs. But it just strikes people as plausible.” —Andrea L. Campbell January 5, 2022 Ian Prasad Philbrick The New York Times
“I do see the Hayashi appointment as part of Prime Minister Kishida's balancing act.” —Richard Samuels November 10, 2021 The Japan Times
“Those who say China can invade Taiwan conflate changed rhetoric with changed capability.” —M. Taylor Fravel November 9, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate
“Hypersonic glide vehicles… travel at lower trajectories and may manoeuvre in flight, which makes them challenging to track and destroy.” —Prof. M. Taylor Fravel November 1, 2021 Helena Sutan Brinkwire
“It empowers those who are looking for continuity and/or expansion of missile defense or nuclear forces.” —Vipin Narang October 22, 2021 Julian Berger The Guardian
“It underscores China’s determination to strengthen its deterrent, especially as amid the steep decline in U.S.-China relations and long-standing concerns about missile defense.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 19, 2021 Luis Martinez ABC News
“The most important element of [U.S.-China] competition globally is economics and economic capabilities, and not military power and military capabilities, which makes it different from the Cold War.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 19, 2021 Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Zachary Basu Axios
Prof. Narang in Politico "One reason why the U.S. pursues counterforce and missile defense capabilities is precisely to force adversaries to invest a lot of time and resources to develop crazy experimental systems." October 18, 2021 Alexander Ward and Quint Forgey Politico
Professor Berinsky's research is cited in WBUR's Cognoscenti, "Massachusetts is not the democratic bastion you think it is" October 18, 2021 Kristina Mensik WBUR Cognoscenti
“Hypersonic glide vehicles . . . fly at lower trajectories and can manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to track and destroy.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 16, 2021 Demetri Sevastopulo & Kathrin Hille The Financial Times
“More generally, Kim wants to show us that his deterrent is not only ‘complete,’ but that he continues to work on improving survivability and penetrability against both [South Korea] and the U.S., like ‘normal’ nuclear powers do.” —Vipin Narang October 11, 2021 Michelle Ye Hee Lee The Washington Post
“These planes are never on a vector to intrude into Taiwan’s airspace.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 6, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate
“It’s absolutely unprecedented in the modern history of these flights that China has run into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone. Each day breaks the preceding record for the total number of flights on a single day.” —M. Taylor Fravel October 5, 2021 Julian Borger The guardian
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
