May 23, 2018
Catherine Lutz, co-director of the Watson Institute’s Costs of War project, responds to President Trump’s repeated claim that the United States "has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East."
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 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 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.’”
January 4, 2018 The Dig Podcast with Daniel Denvir
Professor Cathy Lutz joined Daniel Denvir on his The Dig Podcast to discuss troop veneration, John Kelly's recent diatribe, and President Trump's attack on protesting NFL players.
October 25, 2017 Pacific Daily News
Anthropology and international studies professor Cathy Lutz comments on Okinawa women and Guam activists who oppose further militarization.
September 6, 2017 Pacific Standard
Cathy Lutz, international studies professor in Pacific Standard, "There's another logic behind the call for more war—at least, when it comes to certain corporate interests: For many companies that have, for years, been cashing giant checks from the Pentagon's trillion dollar war budget, there are still an extraordinary number of dollars to be made."
August 21, 2017 Common Dreams
Catherine Lutz in Common Dreams, "Each of these three nations’ leaders saw Guam with its US military presence – so far from the United States, so close to them – as a danger and a provocation."
May 23, 2017 US New and World Report
Catherine Lutz in US News, "Our safety as a nation depends as much or more on a healthy, well-educated population as it does on the force of arms. Given this reality, the new budget's sharp reductions in programs that address the needs of low-income families and individuals are blows to our nation's basic security."
April 20, 2017 Federal News Radio
Catherine Lutz, professor of international studies, discusses the impact of increasing military spending with Tom Temin of the Federal Drive.
April 13, 2017
“The Trump administration’s military-first budget will starve diplomacy and domestic programs that are essential for the safety and security of the American public,” notes co-author Catherine Lutz of the Watson Institute’s Costs of War project.
October 31, 2016 The Boston Globe
A weekly series on United States' foreign affairs cites Brown University's Cost of War Project.
September 9, 2016 U.S. News & World Report
Watson's Costs of War project cited in U.S. News & World Report, "According to a study released Friday through Brown University's Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, government spending on the military, diplomacy, foreign aid, homeland security and services to veterans have cost U.S. taxpayers upward of $4.79 trillion in the post-Sept. 11 era."
July 24, 2015 News from Brown
Education and education reform remain important national issues, but teacher voices are not always prominently involved. Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez traveled the country to sample teacher sentiments and insights for a new book,Schooled: Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change.
February 14, 2015 Global Post
Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies in the Global Post: "Both our military and development aid have produced infrastructure and institutions that are wildly out of sync with what Afghanistan can sustain."
September 12, 2014
Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, on NBC News: "Nations notoriously underestimate what wars will cost going in — the U.S. has been no different in these last two wars."
July 15, 2014
On SFGate.com Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, reviews Ian Morris' book "War: What Is It Good For?" and shares why some readers will find themselves with more questions than answers.
July 11, 2014
Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, says in an op-ed to the Providence Journal, "it is as if the entire population of my city, Providence, and many of its suburbs, had been wiped away."
July 10, 2014
Addressing the latest GM recall, Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, says: "the actual safety impact of the GM recalls may be that they'll further erode confidence in the United States' car-based culture."
June 19, 2014
Catherine Lutz, co-director of the Watson-based Costs of War project, said on Al Jazeera America that the estimated $4 to 6 trillion -- for military operations, veterans' medical costs, social programs for veterans' families, and interest on money borrowed to fight the war -- hasn't done much good. "It seems to have bought us trouble in the United States, and it's definitely bought the people of Iraq a very different kind of country -- one that's quite fallen apart."