Headlines 2021

Prof Campbell weighs in: What has the pandemic revealed about the U.S. healthcare system? What needs to change?

April 14, 2021 MIT SHASS Communications MIT SHASS

A new goal for soccer: Improving attitudes toward refugees

March 15, 2021 Will Sullivan The MIT Governance Lab

While a national soccer win can stoke anti-refugee sentiment, messaging promoting diversity can reverse this effect.

3 Questions: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impact 10 years later

March 10, 2021 The Center for International Studies

Within minutes, the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011, brought an unprecedented wave of death, displacement, and destruction to Japan.

3 Questions: Task Force 2021 and the future of MIT education

February 26, 2021 Steve Bradt MIT News

Giving the people what they want?

February 21, 2021 Peter Dizikes MIT News

Research by MIT political scientist Devin Caughey shows that over time, elected politicians in the U.S. are generally responsive to the opinions of voters.

Visiting undergraduates collaborate with MIT PhD students on research through MIT GOV/LAB mentorship pilot

February 12, 2021 Will Sullivan MIT Governance Lab

Program aims to increase research opportunities and give PhD students mentorship experience.

Political scientist In Song Kim receives the 2021 Levitan Prize

February 10, 2021 MIT SHASS Communications

In his new book, Kim aims to "provides a big data analysis of contemporary trade policy-making, facilitating not only academic research of trade with a new unit of analysis but also public awareness of product-specific trade negotiations such as the current China-U.S. trade dispute.”

To arms or to flight?

February 5, 2021 Leda Zimmerman MIT Political Science

Political science graduate student Aidan Milliff finds significant differences in how people in similar situations respond to threats of violence.

Defining success and mapping the road ahead for public-private partnership and critical infrastructure cybersecurity

February 4, 2021 précis/Center for International Studies

Nazli Choucri Connects the Dots Between Technology and Geopolitics

January 29, 2021 Katherine Lee AAAS

Foreign policy advice: Don’t look back

January 29, 2021 Peter Dizikes MIT News

The Biden administration must navigate a new set of global challenges, experts say in MIT panel discussion.

PhD candidates Campbell-Mohn and Freeman receive special recognition by Kissinger’s Nolan Prize

January 28, 2021 The Henry A Kissinger Center for Global Affairs

What's next? Challenges ahead for President Biden

January 21, 2021 précis/Center for International Studies

What must the US do to sustain its democracy?

January 20, 2021 Peter Dizikes MIT News

Recent months have been tumultuous for U.S. democracy, in ways that are both novel and yet also connected to conflicts seen throughout the country’s past. MIT News spoke to several of the Institute’s political scientists and historians, and asked them: What must the U.S. do to sustain the health of its democracy?