The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 ...

Ramesh Ramanathan is a social entrepreneur, and works on urban issues in India. He is co-founder of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, a non-profit focused on transforming quality of ...

One can almost hear the cacophony of parakeets as their green bodies punctuate the branches of a tamarind tree. In another work, a dog, somewhat emaciated, back curved, stares out at us from a milky ...

The Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy is pleased to provide resources to support three Brown University Ph.D. candidates with proposed research activities that align well with one or ...

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: ...

Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members that have passed. These altars ...

Sidra Kamran is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She conducted her PhD research at The New School for Social Research, where she also completed a ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union and the withering away of planned economies, the 20th-century literature on communism shifted decisively toward the 21st-century literature on authoritarianism. Iza ...

This reading group stems from the necessity to discuss urgent political questions about the environment in an informal setting through Latin American literary formulations of ecological themes in the ...

What are the Indian economy’s biggest achievements and disappointments in recent times? How do we reconcile a seemingly high growth economy with few good jobs to do justice to a burgeoned youth glut?

The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s single largest institutional consumer of oil – and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and ...