Wall Street Journal
Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian comments in this article examining the benefits and concerns around different types of cooking oils, noting there is strong evidence that “seed oils, which are rich in healthy, unsaturated fats, are really good for our health.”
The Conversation
A&S historian Diego Javier Luis examines the spiritual life of colonial Latin America, where Spanish control “was far from absolute.”
The Conversation
Fletcher’s Tara D. Sonenshine examines historical U.S. immigration trends and looks at the current global response to immigration.
BBC
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation, joins BBC Newshour to discuss the memorandum of understanding Ethiopia has signed with the self-declared republic of Somaliland to use one of its ports. (His comments begin at 38:4.)
CNN
A&S political scientist Fahd Humayun comments on the political and economic uncertainty in Pakistan ahead of its crucial 2024 elections, noting “any government coming to power through suspicious elections is not only likely to be on a weak footing and reliant on the military for its political survival but will also be unlikely to attract the capital inflows so badly needed."
Al Jazeera
A&S anthropologist Amahl Bishara joins this The Listening Post segment to discuss the experience of Gaza journalists
Al Jazeera
Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin comments on Russia’s massive industrial production of FPV drones, which he says are “less effective in comparison with high-precision means of destruction.”
Scientific American
Fletcher Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher comments on this past week’s UN climate summit, noting, “I do not see the COP28 agreement doing more than sending a warning signal to the market due to the vagueness of the text.”
Washington Post
Fletcher’s Chris Miller comments on President Biden’s selection of a defense supplier for the inaugural CHIPS Act Grant saying, “If you look at this particular facility, its chips are used in military communications, in space, in radars, in electronic warfare systems. So there’s a pretty clear link here between what the security interest is, and what the CHIPS Act is accomplishing.”