Mira Mehta

• Interviews
• World

Marsin Alshamary is a faculty associate in Boston College’s Islamic Civilization and Societies Program, where she researches and teaches about Middle Eastern politics, focusing on democracy, religious institutions, civil society, and political move...

• Interviews
• Security and Defense
• U.S.

Heidi Peltier is an economist who has researched and written extensively on military-related topics including public finance, contracting, and impacts on employment. She has been a part of the Brown Costs of War project staff since its creation in 20...

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Bruce Riedel ‘75 is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. He served in the CIA for 30 years before retiring in 2006. He was a senior advisor on South ...

• Magazine
• Security and Defense
• United States

Throughout history, youth voices across the world have played integral roles in protest movements. Facing coordinated state violence since the February 2021 coup, young people in Myanmar have taken to the streets to protest for democracy. Uyghur yout...

• Interviews

Editors’ Note: This is the second installment of an interview series conducted in collaboration with the Stone Initiative on Inequality at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Directed by Professors Margaret Weir and Jim...

• Magazine

“If we were able to keep our income, we’d have been married a long time ago.” Sherri Daniel, who has spinal stenosis and achondroplasia, a form of short-limbed dwarfism, currently receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI), while her fiancé, ...