MKOCNU 12-4: Pundit Prognosticators

Brown University panelists examine history, policy implications of impeachment. Read what Professors Susan Moffitt, Richard Arenberg, James Morone, Eric Patashnik, and Wendy Shiller say at the recent faculty forum on impeachment in The Brown Daily Herald.

Congratulations to Professor Tyler Jost and Professor Sharon Krause on being appointed to Named Chairs.

President Trump is taking a beating from within his own administration on impeachment. And it could get worse by week’s end.

As the Trump administration pulls American troops away from Syria’s northern border, the President has repeatedly insisted that the region’s oil has been “secured,” even going so far as to suggest the United States is now responsible for the fate of the oil.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, has had several articles published.

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, in the news.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, publishes and comments on a variety of U.S. government issues.

From the industrial revolution to the rise of globalization, human society has changed profoundly since our early days as hunter-gathers. But our brains? Not so much. On this episode, Sarah talks with Watson professor Rose McDermott about this evolutionary mismatch, and the vexing problems it creates in our politics and culture.

Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine includes counterintelligence probe.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to constitutional expert Corey Brettschneider about a letter from the White House to Congress, stating the administration will not participate in the impeachment inquiry.

In a recent article, Margaret Weir and co-author Elizabeth Mattiuzzi look at "the new geography of poverty."

“If they are stonewalled now, they’ll take it as further evidence of obstruction. And they can drop all that evidence into a second article of impeachment”

Indian Americans are perhaps not more than 4,00,000 in number, but if Texas becomes a “swing” or “battleground” state, ready for a political flip, even such small numbers might ultimately matter.

Yelena Biberman, Brown University PhD alumnus, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Skidmore recently published her book, Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India (Modern South Asia), Oxford, 2019.

While examples of left-wing and grassroots movements that use populist discourse abound, we tend to associate populism particularly with the right, political leaders, and authoritarianism. When Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency in 2018, international media quickly classified him as the latest iteration of the worldwide populist phenomenon.

New York Times publisher and Brown University Political Science alumnus, A.G. Sulzberger '03, gives The Stephen A. Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs about free press.

America has entered a new era of political discourse, experts say: one that allows — even encourages — vitriolic verbal abuse of children and teenagers.

How are Donald Trump’s racist tweets about “rat-infested” Baltimore, his tacit endorsement of chants of “send her home” about representative Ilhan Omar at his rallies, and the mass shooting in El Paso, TX, targeting Latinos by a gunman concerned about a Mexican “invasion” of the United States connected?

Political Science PhD student Rob Grace was recently awarded the Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for his research on the politics of humanitarian action, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian access obstruction.

The Open Graduate Education Program at Brown grants select doctoral students the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field. The program enables students to bridge two research areas in collaborative and engaging ways, further advancing their studies in each field.

Eight doctoral students were awarded Global Mobility Research Fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year.

The data collection strategies we employ affect the quality of our findings. This is particularly true for field researchers of violence and human rights. Working in high-risk, low-information contexts, these researchers are at greater risk of methodological missteps and the accompanying shortfalls for their findings and policy recommendations. We interrogate one methodological challenge particularly common to research in violent contexts: selection bias.

Recent research shows that a crucial bloc of Democrats is at once more moderate and more radical than its counterparts.

Over the four years during which he has dominated American political life, nearly three of them as president, Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics.

Just because we live in 2019 doesn’t mean everything the doctor offers you is something that’s supported by evidence.

As the Trump administration defends its move to transfer funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security to immigration enforcement and detention, Democrats and some immigration experts say the White House is defying the will of Congress and possibly federal law.

President Donald Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) agree on one thing: the elimination of the filibuster in the Senate. And now former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has lent his weight to that demand.

More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.

Half of the 10 members of Congress seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have already hit career highs in bill-drafting productivity this year, and it’s only August.

Alcohol-drenched medieval battlefields. Opium-laced imperialism. Modern-day narco-terrorism. There’s a lot of history between armed conflict and psychoactive substances.

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in Politics Letters on Robert Mueller's testimony.

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, is interviewed on The Arthur Brooks Show podcast on what distinguishes patriotism from nationalism and appropriately expressing love for our country.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, published an article in The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2019 edition, his theory of three visions of international order.

Melting ice will expose waste that has been locked in for decades.

Andrew Schrank, Professor of Sociology, and International and Public Affairs, and Prerna Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science, and International and Public Affairs, are among 64 new fellows named by CIFAR, a Canadian-based global charitable organization that convenes extraordinary interdisciplinary researchers from around the world to address science and humanity’s most important questions.

eff Colgan’s new article Three Visions of International Order was published by The Washington Quarterly, a journal hosted by George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, in their Summer 2019 edition.

“If Congress asked him to testify, I believe he would appear voluntarily,” Rep. André Carson told VICE News

In her book, All Roads Lead to Power, professor Kaitlin Sidorsky analyzes how many more women are appointed, rather than elected, to political office. These women make a conscious decision to enter politics through a less partisan and negative entry point, and that the work connects with their personal lives or career. They are not always victims of a biased political sphere or lacking in ambition or self-confidence. A book signing follows the program.

Political elites need to feel that these are our children dying, that this is a crisis for us, a tragedy for our community, we must take immediate action to save the lives of our people.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, comments in the Guardian on President Trump.

Listen to Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, discuss lessons from Iran-Contra situation on skullduggery.