News - Quoted

Vipin Narang discusses Pyongyang's weapon advancements with the Wall Street Journal.

October 10, 2020 The Wall Street Journal

“It is easier for older people to see the relevance of government in their lives. Two of the biggest federal spending items, Social Security and Medicare, are conferred largely on the basis of age.”

—Andrea L. Campbell

October 5, 2020 Emily Brandon U.S. News & World Report

“We don’t really know what the full picture is of jail-based disenfranchisement, partly because of this very decentralization.”

—Ariel White

October 1, 2020 Madeleine Carlisle and Lissandra Villa Time

MIT's Election Data and Science Lab cited in Fox News.

September 29, 2020 Rob DiRienzo Fox News

Many senior citizens who typically work the polls are staying home this year due to the risks of the pandemic, researchers from MIT's Election Data and Science Lab and the voting rights group Democracy Works said. They estimate the country needs at least 467,000 new poll workers to meet the demand.

Research from MIT GOV/LAB is featured in Psychology Today

September 15, 2020

“North Korea already tested a PKS-3 SLBM last October. And it didn’t cross Trump’s redline then, and is unlikely to this time. Trump won't care.”

—Vipin Narang

September 4, 2020 Reuters New York Times

“Collusion between Pakistan and China to keep India’s western and northern borders on simmer at the same time is difficult to prove but cannot be ruled out.”

—Vipin Narang

July 2, 2020 Bloomberg News

Evan Lieberman's essay basis for Washington Post article

May 21, 2020 Michele L. Norris The Washington Post

Lily Tsai’s work on the Ebola outbreak cited in Science

April 16, 2020 Science

“The site was supposed to be shut down—apparently it’s not,” (on what appears to be expansions to a rocket launch facility)

—Vipin Narang

March 27, 2020 NPR

“I think that once people take a deep breath and consider what’s going to be done in November, they’re going to realize that the big lift necessary to expand the amount of mail voting by a factor of four, five or six in some states is going to be disruptive.”

—Charles Stewart III

March 19, 2020 The New York Times

“Hastily implemented changes to voting rules and laws can end up causing all types of problems that you didn’t anticipate,” on hastily switching primaries to vote-by-mail to increase voting safety amidst the coronavirus outbreak

—Charles Stewart III

March 18, 2020 Associated Press

“What we hope for is that we can respond to the voting challenges in a nonpartisan way, in an era in which any change to how we vote is usually framed in a very partisan manner.”

—Charles Stewart III

March 14, 2020 The Wall Street Journal

“For Trump to get up and go all the way to India … it’s a pretty big deal and a validation for Modi in the face of this withering international criticism.”

—Vipin Narang

February 22, 2020 LA Times

“The thing that weighs against the claim is that it’s a terrible bioweapon. If you were engineering a bioweapon this would have the absolute opposite of the characteristics you would want.”

—Vipin Narang

February 18, 2020 CNN

“The results of the study might be disheartening, but in the realm of misinformation, it is as important to figure out what existing programs don’t work as it is to figure out what programs might work.”

—Adam Berinsky

February 14, 2020 Scientific American

“If you’re going to have the force, make sure it’s safe, secure, and reliable...Some, not all, of the force and the delivery platforms are decades old...it just can’t sit and rot.”

—Vipin Narang

February 10, 2020 Vox

“I’m still betting on Biden. Ultimately, Sanders has a ceiling of around 30 percent. Buttigieg is too raw and untested. This leaves Warren and Biden. But it’s going to be a long slog to the nomination.”

—Charles Stewart III

February 5, 2020 The New York Times

“I really wish and hope that the candidates will recognize that if they don’t defend the system when it can be defended that they are doing harm to democracy and doing harm to devalue the nomination they’re seeking.”

—Charles Stewart III

February 4, 2020 Federal News Network

“So you have a system that you can never use because it buys you a strategic nuclear war. And if you can never actually use it, and the Russians know that, it cannot deter what you want it to.”

—Vipin Narang

February 4, 2020 CNN

“Internet voting might be an inevitability, but...the systems were not yet ready for prime time.”

—Charles Stewart III

January 23, 2020 The New York Times

“The most important takeaway from Iran’s strike is just how precise their short-range ballistic missiles were...The accuracy revolution is real and no longer a monopoly of the United States. This has huge implications for modern conflict.”

—Vipin Narang

January 15, 2020 The Economist

Despite Iran’s announcement that it won’t abide by enrichment levels and quantities set by the JCPOA, “it is still quite far from having enough enriched uranium for a bomb, let alone a functional arsenal because...of the JCPOA.”

—Vipin Narang

January 5, 2020 CNN

“He was a monster, no question...But there’s a consequentialist argument as well.”

—Vipin Narang

January 4, 2020 The New York Times

“The message was loud and clear. This was Kim Jong Un’s maximum pressure campaign on President Trump. Like if you’re not hearing me about changing your calculations and giving sanctions relief and security guarantee and getting rid of the hostile policy, I can show you what long-range missiles look like.”

—Vipin Narang

December 18, 2019 CNBC