"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 ...

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.

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the political ecology of forest conservation, historical geography, ...

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 ...

In the United States, following the 9/11 attacks, Muslims and people of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Arab descent became targets of government racial profiling practices. The U.S. government ...

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: ...

The Costs of War project provides teaching resources for educators seeking to engage their students in interdisciplinary conversations about the post-9/11 wars and their costs, as well as alternatives ...

This paper examines the total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria, which are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion. This budgetary figure includes costs to date, estimated at ...

The Taubman Center for American Politics & Policy is happy to bring support to faculty and students with research grants. These research projects that Taubman funds currently focuses on three themes: ...

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 ...