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 history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in ...

The knowledge of global scale climate change science is rich and well established, but understanding the variability in climate encountered at the local level is critical to sustaining human ...

Development in the age of globalization presents new challenges and opportunities. Globalization has not only accelerated the pace of economic transformation and social change, it has also ...

Large defense contractors have played a central role in fighting the post-9/11 wars. They have provided workers who have engaged in direct combat and provided supplies, logistical services, and arms ...

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New ...

The Jindal Distinguished Lecture Series was endowed in perpetuity by Sajjan and Sangita Jindal to promote a serious discussion of politics, economics, social and cultural change in modern India. In ...

In this Feb. 18, 2020 photo, Burkina Faso paratroopers are being trained at the U.S. military-led annual Flintlock counterterrorism exercise in West Africa. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy) United States ...

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 ...

U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting June 29, 2011 Reuters “When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price ...

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 ...