In the Media

Faculty, lecturers, and alumni from SHASS have been featured in a range of national and international media outlets. Explore media coverage on our research, ideas, and honors.

USA Today

November 8, 2024

MIT political scientist Charles Stewart, speaking with USA Today, said people trust elections most when they have a good experience while voting and the candidate they support wins. “I think we’re going to test [the] proposition [that people believe in election integrity] in the next couple of months, and whether that, in fact, takes some of the air out of the tires…of ‘election denial’ types of movements or not.”

Newsweek

November 7, 2024

MIT political scientist Barry Posen speaks with Newsweek about Ukraine’s prospects for victory in light of president-elect Trump’s election win. “The notion of reversing Russian gains seems utterly implausible,” Posen says. “[Ukraine] will get only modest help from the US.”

Washington Examiner

November 5, 2024

MIT historian Christopher Capozzola spoke with The Washington Examiner about U.S. presidents that retreat from the public eye. “In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack,” Capozzola said. “The incapacitation was brief, and Ike returned to work — and even won a second term. But that incident [together with Woodrow Wilson’s stroke] led to the ratification of the 25th Amendment.”

NPR

November 4, 2024

“The right to vote is going to vary quite a bit across different states in the U.S.,” said MIT political scientist Ariel White, who spoke with NPR about voting for the formerly incarcerated and the challenges some might face. “It can be really challenging for people to get accurate information about what the law is and how it might be applied to them.”

NPR

November 3, 2024

MIT political scientist and director of the Election and Data Science Lab Charles Stewart spoke with NPR about tracking voters in a decentralized structure in which lists are maintained at the state and local level.

The Hill

October 31, 2024

The Supreme Court is being pulled into election disputes according to reporting from The Hill. Research from MIT’s Election Data and Science Lab, reports roughly 1% of mail votes were voided as naked ballots in 2020.

The Boston Globe

October 28, 2024

MIT economist and president of the National Bureau of Economic Research James Poterba, speaking with the Boston Globe about the presidential candidates’ proposed economic policies, warns against the dangers of raising the national debt. “We’re not at the precipice of a crisis,” he says. “But will problems come 20 or 30 years out? Yes.”

The Learning Curve

October 25, 2024

MIT economist and Nobel laureate Josh Angrist speaks with The Learning Curve podcast about his educational experiences, studying K-12 education, advising policymakers on education and labor markets, and his work at Blueprint Labs.

Boston Globe

October 24, 2024

MIT Museum director Michael John Gorman, professor of the practice in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, speaks with the Boston Globe about museums’ ability to “give people that spark, that hunger to learn and to dive in deeper.” “Science isn’t all about certainty,” he says. “It’s about the pleasure of finding things out.”

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