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 ...

"We’re on the verge of a fiscal cliff,” said Maribeth Calabro, the president of the Providence Teachers Union. “The result of that will be catastrophic.” Over the past year, school officials across ...

For roughly a century, supermarkets have dominated everyday Americans’ shopping routines. We buy medicine from their pharmacies, vegetables from their produce sections, bread from their bakeries, and ...

Palestinian medical worker stands in front of a tent for COVID-19 test at a medical clinic in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. (Photo by Ahmed Zakot / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 creation of the new cabinet-level Homeland Security agency after 9/11 and the associated identification of a new homeland security mission to prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist ...

Through Fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This figure includes: ...