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	In the News May 16, 2018 JCPOA opportunity for EU to get rid of US dominance Iran Times of News The EU, in words at least, wants to keep the JCPOA and has opposed President Trump’s move. John Tirman discusses the Iran nuclear deal with Persia Digest.
	In the News May 7, 2018 3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa Sarah McDonnellMIT News Hazel Sive, a professor in the Department of Biology, member of the Whitehead Institute, and faculty director of MISTI’s MIT-Africa program discusses the MIT-Africa Initiative, including the launch of a new website, africa.mit.edu.
	In the News May 7, 2018 Walsh on the Iran nuclear deal WBUR Here & Now We get the latest surrounding the Iran nuclear deal, amid President Trump facing a Saturday deadline to decide whether to stay with the deal, from security analyst Jim Walsh.
	In the News May 7, 2018 Pentagon wants to deploy 'low-yield' nuclear weapons to deter Russia from similar ones David Welna NPR If they ever saw a trident coming, they would have no idea what's on it. And I think that's a really dangerous proposition, especially if your aim is to target assets deep in Russian territory. You're buying yourself a strategic nuclear war potentially. Vipin Narang spoke on All Things Considered.
	In the News May 6, 2018 Richard Nielsen on Deadly Clerics Research On Religion Political rebellion and violence in the Middle East has recently been associated with religious belief and rhetoric, often spurred on by the writings and recordings of Muslim clerics. What motivates imams to advocate such tactics?
	In the News May 3, 2018 Denuclearization: can Trump and Kim find a common definition? Shelby HollidayThe Wall Street Journal “Denuclearization is a catch-all term that allows both sides to let it mean whatever they want it to mean...It creates a lot of trouble as you approach a summit, because both sides can have very different definitions or notions of what it means.” Vipin Narang told the WSJ.
	In the News April 23, 2018 An unpredictable Trump and a risk-prone Kim mean high stakes and mismatched expectations Max FisherThe New York Times In the New York Times, Vipin Narang warned that the mile-wide gaps in the countries’ goals and even their understandings of basic terminology leaves “either lots of room for a bargain, or lot of room for a war.”
	In the News April 21, 2018 North Korea stops short of suggesting any intention of giving up nuclear arsenal CBS/APCBS News “This was a smart move by Kim,” says Vipin Narang. “Although it largely formalizes previous pledges on the moratoria from last November and March, it still leaves a lot of wiggle room for circumventing the pledges in the future, and nothing in there is irreversible. And nothing in there mentions denuclearization, of any variety.”
	In the News April 19, 2018 South Korean president says North isn’t insisting on American troop withdrawal Anna FifieldThe Washingon Post Vipin Narang said he would be “very, very careful” about interpreting Moon’s statement as a sign that Kim had conceded that U.S. Forces Korea could stay, “This is a very clever semantic pirouette.”
	In the News April 9, 2018 Great-grandson of lynching victim faces the past: "This is American history" Jim AxelrodCBS News Melissa Nobles, in reference to the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Boston's Northeastern University Law School, told CBS “We are now beginning to change the narrative such that the families who have had that violence visited upon them now can talk about it and it be understood.”
	In the News April 9, 2018 North Korea’s definition of ‘denuclearization’ is very different from Trump’s Anna FifieldThe Washingon Post “The danger is entering into negotiations with unrealistic expectations that Kim is just going to hand over the keys to his nuclear kingdom. He won’t,” said Vipin Narang.
	In the News March 29, 2018 What economists don’t know about manufacturing William B. Bonvillian & Peter L. SingerThe American Interest Political economist Suzanne Berger has noted that mainstream economists thought manufacturing was like agriculture, where relentless productivity gains allowed an ever-smaller workforce to achieve ever-greater output. She found that the agriculture analogy was simply incorrect.
	In the News March 22, 2018 What it's like to negotiate with North Korea Shannon VavraAxios President Trump may find himself in a difficult position as soon as he sits down with Kim Jong-un, according to Jim Walsh, who has been in the room for previous talks and says North Korea’s first pitch is often a curveball.
	In the News March 22, 2018 Russian hackers targeted critical US infrastructure—What happens now? Alison Bruzek and Meghna ChakrabartiWBUR Radio Boston Russian hackers targeted and penetrated some of the country's most sensitive infrastructure including power, nuclear, water, and aviation networks. Joel Brenner wasn't surprised.
	In the News March 16, 2018 US and ROK’s diplomatic push for talks with the DPRK Roee RuttenbergCGTN America There is a flurry of diplomatic activity ahead of a planned meeting between President Trump and the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un. CGTN’s Mike Walter spoke with international security expert Jim Walsh.
	In the News February 28, 2018 Sessions pushes back on Trump after insult CNN "The fact that the President is upset that Sessions is playing by the book is yet another indication that the President is profoundly ignorant and indifferent to the purposes of the institutions of our government," says Joel Brenner, former NSA inspector general and a senior research fellow at CIS.
	In the News February 27, 2018 Is democracy dying? Peter DizikesMIT News Is democracy dying, in the US and around the world? Why or why not? And if so, what can anyone do about it? These questions were at the heart of the Center’s Starr Forum on Monday evening. The panelists discussed democratic systems of rule and suggested some measures to protect them.
	In the News February 25, 2018 Some colleges are cracking down on student-teacher romances Deirdre FernandesBoston Globe David Singer cited for work on MIT's new sexual harassment policy, “We wanted to make sure the policy was fair,” Singer said. But ultimately, school officials “were concerned about relationships of asymmetry of power.”
	In the News January 31, 2018 The future of transatlantic relations: A debate Brookings Institution On Wednesday, January 31, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology hosted a debate on the future of the transatlantic relationship. This debate, convened by the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy program and the Charles Koch Institute, in partnership with POLITICO, is the third debate in a series of thematic debates on America’s role in the world.
	In the News January 18, 2018 India tests-fires Agni-V, a nuclear-capable ICBM Joshua Berlinger and Nikhil KumarCNN Vipin Narang said Thursday's test did not demonstrate any “new capability, (this) was simply a developmental test before India inducts it into operational service.” It's possible India's armed forces were testing the canister the missile is launched out of, as well as its ejection, flight performance and accuracy -- a “regular technical test in that regard.”