Welcome to Professor Linda Bilmes' website. This
page contains links to
recent press coverage.
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Iraq War |
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Scot Paltrow in Condé Nast Portfolio.com (UK): "The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem. " May, 2008. |
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Jonathan Steele in Guardian Unlimited (UK): "Counting the Cost. " May 25, 2008. |
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Sam Leith in Telegraph (UK): "Joseph Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War. " March 8, 2008. |
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Charles Taylor in Bloomberg.com: "Nobelist Stiglitz Tallies Iraq War's Outrageous Cost: Review." March 4, 2008. |
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Bob Herbert in The New York Times: "The $2 Trillion Nightmare." March 4, 2008 (LexisNexis login required). |
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Aida Edemariam in The Guardian: "The true cost of war. " February 28, 2008. |
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Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes in The Times (London): "The three trillion dollar war:
The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportions. " February 23, 2008. |
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John Tepper Marlin in The Huffington Post: "Why Estimates of the Cost of the War
in Iraq Have Been Rising." November 25, 2007. |
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Michael Isikoff and Jamie Reno in Newsweek: "How Do You Fund a War, But Not the Casualties?" October 29, 2007. |
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Stella M. Hopkins in The Charlotte Observer: "Veterans with severe ailments
face long waits for care." October 21, 2007. |
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Rick Maze in Navy
Times. "Nicholson Backs New Benefits
Claims System." July 26, 2007. |
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Richard Paddock in The
Los Angeles Times. "Antiwar Speakers
on Campus are Lecturers, Not Students, This
Time." July 5, 2007. |
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Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
"Long-term Costs of War." May 22,2007. |
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Joshua Kors in The
Nation. “How Specialist Town Lost His
Benefits.” April 9, 2007. |
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Rick Maze in Marine
Corps Times. "VA Alienating
Generation, Disabled Vets Warn." March
21, 2007. |
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Matt Crenson in The
Boston Globe. “Costliness of the War is
Subject to Debate”. March 17, 2007. |
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Matt Crenson for
Associated Press. “Cost for Iraq War reaches
$500 Billion”. March 16, 2007. |
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Hope Yen in The Boston
Globe. “Backlogs in Disability Claims Seen
Stretching Veterans Affairs to Limit”. March
14, 2007. |
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John Holusha in The New
York Times. “Veterans’ Programs Overwhelmed,
Panel is Told”. March 13, 2007. |
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Hope Yen in USA Today.
“Probe: VA Not Doing Enough for Iraq Vets”.
March 13, 2007. |
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Charles Sennott in The
Boston Globe. “Straining to Keep a Promise”.
March 11, 2007. |
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Nick Timiraos in The
Wall Street Journal. “Wounded Warriors at
Walter Reed”. March 10, 2007. |
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Dan Ephron and Sarah
Childress in Newsweek. “Forgotten Heroes”.
March 5, 2007. |
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Lynette Clemetson in
The New York Times. “Focus is on Veterans’
Chief as Inquiries on Care Begin”. March 5,
2007. |
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Bill Glauber in
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The Iraq War
has Cost Each of Us $1,333 – So Far”.
February 6, 2007. |
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Cory Reiss in
Hendersonville News. “Vets May Slip in
Disability Battle”. February 11, 2007. |
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Reuters in The Boston
Globe. “Care for U.S. Veterans Could Cost
$662 Billion – Study”. February 2, 2007. |
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Richard Wolf in USA
Today. “Researchers Weigh War’s Other
Costs”. January 30, 2007. |
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Scott Jaschik in Inside
Higher Ed. “Shooting the Messenger”. January
30, 2007. |
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Denise Grady in
New York Times, "Agency Says Higher Casualty
Total Was Posted in Error" January 30, 2007 |
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Stephen Koff in
Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Injury count in
Iraq disputed" January 28, 2007 |
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David Leonhardt in
New York Times, Business Day. "What $1.2
Trillion Can Buy" January 17, 2007 |
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David Leonhardt in
International Herald Tribune. "Cost of Iraq
war ($1.2 trillion) changes economic
perspectives" January 16, 2007 |
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Ron Scherer in The
Christian Science Monitor. "How US is
deferring war costs" January 16, 2007 |
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Editorial in The
Boston Globe. "Congressional Casualties"
January 16, 2007 |
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Rob Waters in
Bloomberg. "More injured Soldiers
Survive Than Before" January 15, 2007 |
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Nicholas D.
Kristof in New York Times. "An Escalation of
American Blood" January 9, 2007 |
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Christian B. Flow
in The Harvard Crimson. "Veteran Care Could
Cost $700 Billion" January 8, 2007 |
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O'Ryan Johnson in
Boston Herald. "Study: Number of wounded
veterans could cripple VA" |
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United Press
International. "Veteran Health Care Could
Exceed $700B" January 6, 2007 |
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John Cochran in CQ
Weekly. "The Fog of War Costs" January 1,
2007 |
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Robert Scheer in
San Francisco Chronicle. "The real menace"
December 27, 2006 |
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Reports from
Truthdiggers.com "Truthdiggers of the
week: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes"
December 23, 2006 |
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Lou Dobbs on CNN.
"Dobbs: Our Leaders are Ducking Reality on
Iraq" December 6, 2006 |
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Dave Montgomery
and Kevin G. Hall in Star-Telegram
Washington Bureau; McClatchy Newspapers.
"$500 billion and counting" December 6, 2006 |
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CNN "In the Money"
on November 30, 2006 |
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ABC World News
Tonight on the cost of Iraq war on November
19, 2006 |
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Nicholas D.
Kristof in New York Times. "Iraq and Your
Wallet" October 24, 2006 |
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Robyn Blumner in
St. Petersburg newspaper: "Cost of
Bush's War: Just keep adding Zeros"
October 1, 2006 |
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Business Week
article: Chris Farrell, "September 11's
economic legacy." September 10, 2006 |
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Wall Street
Journal article: Jon E. Hilsenrath and Liam
Pleven "Business as Usual; Economic
Fears After 9/11 Proved Mostly
Unfounded." September 9, 2006 |
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Robert J. Samuelson
article on Iraq war, "Terror's Economics:
New political divisions may alter Global financial
alliances." Newsweek, August 21-28,
2006 |
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Economist article
on Iraq War: "Blood and
Treasure" Economist April 8,
2006 |
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Bob Hebert article
on Iraq War: "George Bush's
Trillion Dollar War" NY Times March
23, 2006 |
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Harvard Magazine
article on Iraq War: "The 2-Trillion
Dollar War" Harvard Magazine May-June
issue, 2006 |
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Martin Wolf
article on Iraq War: "Failure to
Calculate the Cost of War" Financial
Times January 10, 2006
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Time Magazine
article: Sally B. Donnelly "Iraq:
Counting the Costs" Time January
16, 2006
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Andrew Walker,
"US economist questions Iraq
costs," BBC, January 9, 2006.
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Tom Regan,
"Report: Iraq war costs could top $2
trillion. New study takes into account
long-term costs of healthcare for wounded
soldiers," Christian
Science Monitor, January 10, 2006.
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Hull |
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Harvard Gazette
article on Hull: "KSG Students Help
Town Manage Future Floods" Harvard
Gazette June 2,, 2005
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Somerville |
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Boston Globe
article on Somerville: "The Model
City" Boston Globe May 14,
2006 |
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Harvard Gazette
article on Somerville: "KSG Students
Help a City Balance Books" Harvard
Gazette April 6, 2006 |
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Commonwealth
Magazine article on Somerville:
"Harvard Students Help Somerville
Revamp its Budgeting Process" Commonwealth
Magazine Winter 2005 |
