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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

“I like to remind people that before this election, absentee ballots were considered to be a Republican mode of voting.”

—Charles Stewart III

March 19, 2021 Anthony Brooks WBUR

“Denuclearization is a non-starter...every time we use that phrase it's a five-yard penalty, because the North Koreans never agreed to it.”

—Vipin Narang

March 15, 2021 CNN

Andrea L. Campbell featured in WalletHub's recent piece about Tax Rates by State

March 11, 2021 John S Kiernan WalletHub

“Any 'safeguards' that could effectively prevent POTUS from exercising sole authority to launch nuclear weapons are either illegal or illusory.”

—Vipin Narang

January 11, 2021 Phil Mattingly, Clare Foran and Zachary Cohen CNN

“I’m more willing to believe it as a way to identify a way to find places with the longest wait times.”

—Charles Stewart III

January 4, 2021 Kevin Quealy and Alicia Parlapiano The New York Times

“Ballots that arrive after the election give fodder to those who want to undermine the legitimacy of the voting process.”

—Charles Stewart III

December 21, 2020 Hanna Kozlowska The Guardian

“By polluting the information ecosystem, they cause others to doubt. Then more people think, Maybe where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

—Adam Berinsky

December 8, 2020 Dhruv Khullar The New Yorker

“I will give credit to voters who got the message and heeded the warnings about the possibilities that their ballots wouldn't get delivered and got them in on-time.”

—Charles Stewart III

December 5, 2020 Noah Pransky NBCBoston

“Iran may now have more motivation to weaponize, without attenuating its ability to do so.”

—Vipin Narang

November 27, 2020 Adam Taylor The Wall Street Journal

“A lot of people stepped up to the plate, starting with election officials who did extraordinary work to adapt to the circumstances.”

—Charles Stewart III

November 18, 2020 Elizabeth Segran Fast Company

“Almost every relevant actor treated voting in 2020 as being under existential threat and needing emergency attention.”

—Charles Stewart III

November 9, 2020 Pam Fessler NPR

Charles Stewart III quoted in the Gaurdian; What US Election Day, and the days after, will look like.

November 2, 2020 Sam Levine The Guardian

“The experience of people with lower incomes is that the world is stacked against them more often.”

—Charles Stewart III

October 29, 2020 Nancy Marshall-Genzer Marketplace

Lower-income voters less confident in accurate count, poll finds

“Nuclear-powered cruise missile development is a way Russia can skirt the terms of New START and achieve intercontinental range that can pose a challenge to national missile defenses.”

—Vipin Narang

October 20, 2020 Zachary Cohen CNN

“If the presidency is lost, it's going to be just hard to pursue.”

—Charles Stewart III

October 14, 2020 Mark Niquette Bloomberg News

“I understand that the program of removing sorting equipment that was controversial was mainly because letter volume has collapsed while package volume has surged to the point where it's like Christmas season all the time.”

—Charles Stewart III

October 13, 2020 Chris Isidore, Nathaniel Meyersohn and Paul Murphy CNN

“The fact that we just don’t have evidence of massive tampering based on either suggests that this is a nothingburger, as they say.”

—Charles Stewart III

October 13, 2020 The New York Times

“It’s not just we are building and modernizing our nuclear weapons program; we are doing it at a time when states are seeking riskier behavior with each other also.”

—Vipin Narang

October 12, 2020 The Washington Post

A 'Twitterized Bush v Gore 2.0'? It's possible, according to the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election.

October 11, 2020 Devin Dwyer ABC News

“The issue here is that the dex” — shorthand for dexamethasone — “can make you paranoid and delusional...We don’t know how much he was given...if he gives an order in the middle of the night, and no one is there to stop him, we are dependent on his military aide not to transmit the order or the duty officer at the national military command center to stop it.”

—Vipin Narang

October 11, 2020 The New York Times