News Clips: Week of Apr. 24 - 30

Apr 27 2017

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.

Commentary: 'Girls' gave us the wrong ideas about millennials
Chicago Tribune (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Social upheaval in America: Why so many working-class whites are dying in midlife
USC News (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Such a long journey - What Angus has been up to
The Telegraph (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Richard North Patterson: Tax cuts are GOP's weapon of choice in class warfare
Boston Globe (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

The Death Rate of White Americans
BBC World Service (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Resolving the Afghanistan Crisis
The Washington Times (by Seyed Hossein Mousavian)

U.S. Threatens Nuclear Deal it Admits Iran Respects - How Will Tehran Respond?
The Real News (Seyed Hossein Mousavian)

Are America’s whites really dying faster?
BBC News (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Trump’s presidency is teaching elites like me a lesson
The Washington Post (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

Partisan Divide Over Economic Outlook Worries Ben Bernanke
The New York Times (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)

The Obamas face the paid-speaking circuit — and all the questions that come with it
Washignton Post (Julian Zelizer) 

Princeton scholar: Interim nuclear deal in N. Korea will help cool hot heads 
The Star-Ledger (Robert Goldston)

Small Business Owners Are Not Following Suit in the Gig Economy
Business News Daily (Alan Krueger) 

Trump’s Tax Plan Is a Reckoning for Republican Deficit Hawks
NYT (Alan Krueger) 

Trump is Giving Republicans What They Really Want
CNN by Julian Zelizer 

The shocking decline in American economic mobility
Seattle Times (Alan Krueger)

Why all the negativity? Check out those neurological channels
Baptist News Global (Susan Fiske) 

Governors think unconventional tools may not stay – ECB survey
Central Banking (Alan Blinder) 

All in the Family: Trump mixes family, governing, business
WTOP (Julian Zelizer) 

Exploring our connection to the Earth
The Independent (David Wilcove) 

BISP cash transfers and empowerment
The Express Tribune (Eldar Shafir)

How Distraction Might Sap Your Concern for the World
New York Magazine (Eldar Shafir and Elizabeth Levy Paluck)

Minimum-Wage Warriors See Certainty in Ambiguity
Bloomberg (Alan Krueger)

Trump's already making his mark on climate
Politico (Michael Oppenheimer)

Cutting EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense
The Conversation US (Janet Currie)

Senate Heads to White House for Briefing on North Korea, But US Strategy Still At Sea
Foreign Policy (Aaron Friedberg) 

All in the Family: Trump's Potent Mix of Blood, Business
NYT (Julian E. Zelizer)

Former Pentagon official tells Senate hearing North Korea 'denuclearization is unlikely'
CNBC (Aaron Friedberg) 

US, North Korea escalate rhetoric
Houston Chronicle (Aaron Friedberg) 

Trump's border wall won't work
Bryan-College Station Eagle (Douglas Massey)

Lives or climate change? The dilemma for China in tapping coal for natural gas
South China Morning Post (Denise Mauzerall)

The Business Case for Providing Health Insurance to Low-Income Employees
Harvard Business Review (Johannes Haushofer)

Trump is trying to send North Korea a message. He's got a long way to go.
Washington Post (Keren Yarhi-Milo)

Our 100-Day Obsession Only Makes The Presidency More Powerful
The Federalist (Julian Zelizer)

Macron’s mission
The Jordan Times (Harold James)

Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: Measuring the Waves
The Diplomat (Thomas Christensen)

Bill Nye rips CNN on air: ‘You’re doing a disservice’
The Philadelphia Inquirer (William Harper)

Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: study
Daily Mail (Alan Krueger) 

How Science Sorts Fact From Alternative Fact
Bloomberg (Daniel Kahneman) 

The latest poll numbers should make Trump smile
CNN by Julian Zelizer 

Converting coal would help China's smog at climate's expense
NewsOK.com (Denise Mauzerall) 

Pence the clean-up act in Trump's first 100 days
AFP (Julian Zelizer)

Obama to hold first public event since leaving office in Chicago on Monday
Los Angeles Times (Julian Zelizer)

Finally, From Italy, the Full George Washington
NYT (Sean Wilentz)

Don't Grade a President on His First 100 Days
The Atlantic (Julian Zelizer)