April 12, 2018 Quartz
While initially reluctant to get entangled in the war in Syria, the U.S. is now prepared to be more involved than ever. In fiscal year 2019, the government assigned $15.3 billion of Department of Defense funds for U.S. operations there.
April 4, 2018 Wall Street Journal
President Trump said on Tuesday that he wanted the U.S. military to "bring our troops back home" from Syria and "start rebuilding our nation." He has claimed that the U.S. has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East since 2001; the Cost of War Project estimates the U.S. has spent $1.8 trillion in direct costs and $4.3 trillion in direct and indirect costs.
March 30, 2018 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Liberals are opposed to Hindu nationalism because it is a form of ethnic nationalism; it is not civic nationalism."
March 29, 2018 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Sociologist Michael Kennedy joined Dan Yorke State of Mind to examine the Trump presidency, from Stormy Daniels to the hiring of John Bolton as the new national security advisor.
March 28, 2018 Forward
"What Anatomy of a Genocide provides instead is perhaps more valuable: A searing portrait of how the Holocaust worked on the ground for ordinary men and women — onetime neighbors and friends whose disparate fates were determined by ethnicity and chance."
March 26, 2018 The Nation
The news that President Trump will install John Bolton as his next national security adviser comes at a time when, by some estimates, the U.S. is waging at least nine undeclared wars across the globe.
March 26, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Divine visitations are the most powerful of all dreams...Among those believers was one of the most devout American presidents, William McKinley.
March 23, 2018 The Hill
The column cites research by the Costs of War project that estimates America's Afghanistan-related spending totals nearly $1 trillion since 2001.
March 21, 2018 C-SPAN
During a Senate debate on the Yemen War Powers Resolution on March 20, 2018, lawmakers discussed the extent of U.S. force abroad and Congress's role in making decisions about where the U.S. goes to war. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cited new Brown University Costs of War project data showing that the U.S. is taking military action against terrorism in 76 countries. "How often," he asked, "has Congress debated whether those military actions were authorized?"
March 21, 2018 The Boston Globe
On the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Globe columnist Michael Cohen observed that though the "so-called war on terrorism is far from over," Americans have, for the most part, moved on. That's despite the fact, he said, that indirect costs from the war total more than $5.5 trillion, according to Brown's Costs of War project.
March 21, 2018 NPR
Catherine Lutz, a professor of anthropology, called National Geographic's past coverage "a kind of white view of the world ... it's safe, and it's basically free of problems." The magazine's forthcoming issue will confront its own racist past.
March 20, 2018 Washington Post Magazine
The morning after President Trump's first travel ban, Robert Blair, assistant professor of political science, was inspired to create a class that addressed three questions troubling him: "Is America's democracy at risk? If it is, how would we know? If it's not, why are we all so freaked out that it is?"
March 19, 2018 Chicago Tribune
Professor Catherine Lutz comments on National Geographic's recent admission of its racist past. “There was a lot of ways that the racism was complex more than just captions saying, ‘These are savages.’”
March 19, 2018 African American Intellectual History Society
In African American Intellectual History Society's Black Perspectives, sociologist Michael Kennedy says, "It is about time that the Black Panther helps us move beyond the politeness accommodating white supremacy."
March 19, 2018 The Washington Post
Stephanie Savell, co-director of the Costs of War, comments on the increase of civilian deaths in the Middle East since President Trump took over, saying "We all know there’s stuff going on in the name of fighting terror, but there’s not much interest in the details.
March 16, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "The endowment is one of the main instruments by which the United States subverts and undermines foreign governments."
March 16, 2018 Tulsa World
In a new partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation, students will be able to spend a portion of the upcoming academic year in Tulsa with the Swearer Center's "Brown in Tulsa Kaiser Fellowship" and the Watson Institute's "Tulsa Fellowship Program."
March 15, 2018 NPR
In this story exploring where possible new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands on major issues, Senior Fellow Richard Boucher said Pompeo "fits in with a crowd that I think tends to be quite confrontational and quite assertive about the United States."
March 14, 2018 The Hill
In an opinion piece in The Hill, Costs of War contributor William Hartung cites a recent study that estimates the costs of America's post-9/11 wars totals $5.6 trillion.
March 12, 2018 GoLocalProv
Economist John Friedman spoke with GoLocalProv in a live video about how children's opportunities to climb the income ladder later in life depend heavily on where they grow up and how big data can play a role in designing place-based public policy.