Eric Gottlieb is a senior studying history, applied math, and Egyptology. Over the course of the year, he will be analyzing Rhode Island’s 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The LIHTC ...

Some lawmakers are calling on Congress to increase defense spending even above the historically high level requested by the Biden administration, citing current high rates of inflation. But there is ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

At least 940,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. The number of people who have been wounded or have fallen ill as a result of the ...

Data from The United States Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars (2021) by Neta Crawford. An important macroeconomic impact of federal spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been to raise the ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, ...

Over the 20-year period of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense paid various companies about $108 billion in contracts for work performed in the country, according to ...

At this week’s China Chat we are joined by Grant Rhode for a discussion of his book, “Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy.” Grant Rhode ...

This reading group will convene to discuss the work of Ailton Krenak, a Brazilian Indigenous ...

Alexandra Mork (she/her) is from Henderson, Nevada and Los Angeles, California. She is a senior studying Political Science and History currently writing a thesis on anti-miscegenation laws. Motivated ...

length article intended for publication in a newspaper or magazine. After graduation, Meg hopes to pursue a career in journalism, ideally with a focus on science communication.

War’s destruction of economies, public services, infrastructure, and the environment leads to deaths that occur long after bombs drop and grow in scale over time. This report reviews the latest ...