News Clips: Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6

Dec 01 2015

The following is a compilation of media clips in which WWS faculty members have been mentioned, cited or quoted. This list is updated weekly. If an item is missing, please email extaff@princeton.edu, and we will add it promptly

The Amazing Self-Restraint of the Pro-Life Movement
Slate Magazine (podcast interview with Julian Zelizer)

The history of lies on the campaign trail
PBS NewsHour (quotes Julian Zelizer)

Killing Woodrow Wilson: The Battle of Princeton
Huffington Post (mentions Cecilia Rouse)

Severe inequality in the Middle East led to the rise of ISIS, says French economist
International Business Times AU (mentions Alan Krueger)

Is Obamacare a Job Creator?
Bloomberg (video) (interviewees include Alan Krueger)

FTC Gets New Tech Chief in 2016
NewsFactor Network (mentions Ed Felten)

'Liftoff' Ready for Rate Increase
The Wall Street Journal (quotes Alan Blinder)

The Fed Will Be Prudent - If It Has a Chance
The Wall Street Journal (opinion letter quotes Alan Blinder)

For Any Fed Action on Interest Rates, an Unforeseeable Reaction
The New York Times (mentions Eldar Shafir)

Fact vs. Fiction: The UN Climate Talks in Paris
Media Matters for America (blog) (quotes Michael Oppenheimer)

Identifying the pattern in the California and Paris attacks is easy, but fixing it isn't
Firstpost (mentions Robert Keohane)

Could Big Pharma Deals Cost the US Jobs?
Bloomberg (video) (interviewees include Alan Krueger)

Bill Gross Doubles Down: Fed "Certainly Set To Go"
ValueWalk (interviewees include Alan Krueger)

Inequality caused rise of ISIS, Piketty says
KSPR (quotes Alan Krueger)

I was right on jobs, not Yellen: Ex-Obama advisor
CNBC (quotes Alan Krueger)

Teaching focus, interdisciplinary study contribute to U. researchers winning Nobel prizes
The Daily Princetonian (mentions Angus Deaton)

McCallie student selected to go to Nobel Week in Sweden
Googa.com (mentions Angus Deaton)

Three books for Christmas
BusinessWorld Online Edition (mentions Harold James)

FTC Hires Online Privacy Guru Lorrie Cranor
MediaPost Communications (mentions Ed Felton)

A puzzle Janet Yellen cannot solve with a rate rise
Financial Times (mentions Alan Blinder)

ISIS Cannot Be Contained
Commentary Magazine (quotes Jacob Shapiro)

Warner Co-Sponsors Bill to Strengthen Visa Waiver Security
Recorder Post (quotes Julian Zelizer)

Visa waiver program changes amid terrorism concerns
The Voice Herald (blog) (quotes Julian Zelizer)

The FTC is getting a new chief technologist: Carnegie Mellon's Lorrie Cranor
The Washington Post (mentions Ed Felten)

Financial crises are great news for far-right politicians
Vox (quotes Kim Lane Scheppele)

Modern pressures on the traditional family
The Irish Catholic (mentions Sara McLanahan)

People think that the Copenhagen climate talks failed. Here's why they're so wrong
The Washington Post (mentions Andrew Moravcsik)

Panel to discuss Cuban revolution
Princeton University (mentions Stanley Katz)

Why 2 degrees Celsius is climate change's magic number
NET Website (quotes Michael Oppenheimer)

How Big The Gig Economy Really Is
ValueWalk (mentions Alan Krueger)

Dismemberment of Pakistan: Awami League Conceals Facts
Kashmir Watch (mentions Gary Bass)

ALEX BRUMMER: Fears of a dangerous rate conflict as monetary policy in the EU and US looks set to move in opposite directions
This is Money (mentions Alan Blinder)

The Note: Christie vs. Cruz
ABC News (mentions Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger)

Why People Are Skeptical About Mark Zuckerberg's $45 Billion Philanthropic Promise
Chicagomag.com (quotes Martin Gilens)

Islamic State's strategy is suicidal
Chicago Tribune (co-authored by Jacob Shapiro)

White House strengthens visa waiver program
AsianJournal.com (quotes Julian Zelizer)

Hillary Clinton's likability problem
The Hill (quotes Julian Zelizer)

US-UK Ultimate Victory Assured Without the Soviets
The Wall Street Journal (Letter to the Editor quotes Stephen Kotkin)

How to build a better PhD
Nature.com (mentions Shirley Tilghman)

Don't Constrain an Expansionist China Alone. Try Trilaterals.
The National Interest (mentions Thomas Christensen)

House preps for final highway and transit vote
Politico (mentions Alan Krueger)

Thomas Piketty Thinks Inequality Led to the Rise of ISIS. Is That Crazy?
New York Magazine (mentions Alan Krueger)

8 things you need to know about climate economics
Road to Paris (mentions Angus Deaton)

The latest on the 'Cadillac Tax'
Politico (mentions Angus Deaton)

That Gravity $70,000 Minimum Wage Story Could Be Straight Out Of Henry Ford's $5 A Day Book
Forbes (mentions Angus Deaton)

Former US, Israeli officials spar on Iran death aftermath
The Jerusalem Post (mentions Daniel Kurtzer)

Professor Markus Brunnermeier gives the twelfth Paolo Baffi Lecture on the theme of "Financial Dominance"
Banca d'Italia (mentions Markus Brunnermeier)

Organized workers fume over president's hollow promises
LifeZette (quotes Julian Zelizer)

White House Strengthens Visa Waiver Program Following Paris Attacks
NBCNews.com (quotes Julian Zelizer)

Strauss brings wealth of entrepreneurial, policy knowledge to Wilson school
The Daily Princetonian (quotes Cecilia Rouse and Steven Strauss)

The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
Bloomberg Businessweek (mentions Angus Deaton)

If you build it, MERL will come: Using monitoring to drive a MERL-led future
Devex (quotes Angus Deaton)

World poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Open Democracy (mentions Angus Deaton)

China's RMB joins IMF's elite currency club
GhanaWeb (quotes Harold James)

Food security depends on better nitrogen management
Southwest Farm Press (quotes Denise Mauzerall)

Drug Prices Are Too Damn High. Here's How to Fix Them
WIRED (quotes Uwe Reinhardt)

The Problem with Canceling Environmental Marches in Paris
New University Online (quotes Michael Oppenheimer)

Despite Studies, Minimum Wage Hikes Reduce Employment
Economics21 (mentions Alan Krueger)

It's not the poverty in the Middle East that's driving terrorism - it's the politics
Quartz (mentions Alan Krueger)

IMF decides to include Chinese yuan in SDR basket of key currencies
OracleHerald.com (blog) (quotes Alan Blinder)

China Gets a Seat in the World's Currency Country Club
Foreign Policy (quotes Alan Blinder)

Here's why we can only contain the Islamic State, not bomb it back to the Stone Age
The Washington Post (co-authored by Jacob Shapiro)

Is it time for China to start looking for strategic allies?
China Daily USA (mentions Thomas Christensen)

Erase Woodrow Wilson's name?
KESQ (by Julian Zelizer)

William Watson: The inequality trap
National Post (mentions Angus Deaton)

Uncommon Knowledge: Part 1: Stephen Kotkin on Stalin's Rise to Power
FearTube.com (video of WSJ Live interview with Stephen Kotkin)

A Fanatic's Federalism
Nomocracy in Politics (quotes Stephen Kotkin)

Why PH has been left behind
Journal Online (mentions Stephen Kotkin)

Clinton to unveil major jobs and infrastructure spending proposal
Hickory Daily Record (quotes Alan Krueger)

Democratic presidential hopeful O'Malley releases health policy plan
Healthcare Dive (quotes Uwe Reinhardt)

Robert Reich's new book, Saving Capitalism, offers a road map for revival of federal NDP
Straight.com (mentions Martin Gilens)