Suzanne Maloney
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Suzanne Maloney
@suzannemaloney.bsky.social
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Two Men Are Convicted in Plot to Kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad in New York City
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/n...
Two Men Are Convicted in Plot to Kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad in New York City
The convictions brought some measure of resolution to what U.S. officials have described as an unrelenting retaliation effort against Masih Alinejad.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Wu: "But for 395 years, come high water or hell - no matter who threatens to bring it - Boston has stood up for the people we love and the country we built. And we’re not stopping now."
March 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Wu: "Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We are the city that leads in the storm; that stands up under pressure, together; and finds strength in each other. We will defend the people we love with all that we’ve got. I couldn’t ask for more in a family."
March 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Wu: "God bless our City, God bless our people, and God save whoever messes with Boston."
March 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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When you have time, take a listen to my colleague in Gaza. This aired Sunday before the Israeli strikes resumed. A Palestinian Reporter Returns Home to Gaza City one.npr.org/i/1238987354...
🔊 Listen Now: A Palestinian Reporter Returns Home to Gaza City
Up First From NPR on NPR One | 28:45
one.npr.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Trump is already in the process of illegally abolishing the Department of Education and Department of Labor so the useless Democratic strategists advising us to keep our powder dry on USAID should just go away forever. Either you fight for the principle and all the agencies, or none of them
February 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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“Being afraid to stand up for foreign aid will let the worst impulses of isolationism win, and for the worst possible reasons and in the worst possible way with the most dire consequences for the beneficiaries of aid at home and abroad.” - from Paul
Musgrave.

musgrave.substack.com/p/you-can-de...
You Can Defend Foreign Aid, Democrats
It's not electoral poison to defend life-saving, interest-advancing agencies
musgrave.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
Tracking federal expenditures in real time - The Hamilton Project
This tool will update daily at 4 p.m. ET on weekdays, excluding federal holidays. Weekly data will update once the previous full week’s data are complete.  On January 27, the Trump administration orde...
www.hamiltonproject.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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There is so much going on that this has slipped under the radar. France’s military retreat from Africa has taken place at astonishing speed. By the end of this year, the only French permanent military base in Africa will be in Djibouti

In @economist.com
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
February 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
ICYMI ⏬@brookings.edu Foreign Policy scholars reflected on President Carter's foreign policy achievements as well as the challenges his administration faced on the world stage.
“Above all, Carter was a decent and honest man who routinely took on the hardest and most unpopular issues because that is what he believed was the president’s job.”

Brookings experts reflect on the legacy of the 39th U.S. president.
The legacy of President Jimmy Carter
As President Jimmy Carter is laid to rest, Brookings scholars reflect on the legacy of his presidency for American foreign policy.
www.brookings.edu
January 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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With: @marsin.bsky.social @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, @sharangrewal.bsky.social Steven Heydemann, Mara Karlin, Kemal Kirişci, @suzannemaloney.bsky.social Itamar Rabinovich, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, @stelhami.bsky.social & me
December 10, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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The Assad regime falls. What happens now?
@brookings.edu experts weigh in.
Including>>
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
The Assad regime falls. What happens now?
Brookings experts break down what the Assad regime's fall means, what happens now, and the questions that remain.
www.brookings.edu
December 10, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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What to expect from Trump 2.0 on Iran policy:

Jackie Northam @npr.org

Dana Stroul @washinstitute.bsky.social

@suzannemaloney.bsky.social @brookingsinst.bsky.social

& me

www.npr.org/2024/11/26/n...
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Vanda Felbab-Brown & Bill de Blasio⁩ kick off Brookings Foreign Policy's #FentanylEpidemicForum, an important milestone in a multi-year @brookingsinst.bsky.social⁩ project that provides evidence-based, actionable policy recommendations on domestic & global drug policy
December 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Even the day after, it was clear that Oct 7 was going to upend the Mid East’s tenuous state. What wasn’t clear was how. What we’re seeing in Syria is perhaps just the start of the ripple effects of Israel’s wars. Momentum has shifted—but we’re a long way from a definitive reset.
December 1, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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I’ve a long record of no drama in almost all things. But this right here is pretty close to the worst nomination ever. Nightmare pick.
December 1, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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The videos of Syrians returning to their home cities after displacement and exile, and the videos of Syrians reuniting with their families -- our region deserves this and so much more. ❤️‍🩹
December 1, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Anyone interested in Syria reporting and following of news updates, here is a helpful list to start with:
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
November 29, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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What does a ceasefire sound like? War, until it doesn't.

I'm reminded today of this recreation, based on British field recordings, of the last minute of World War I into the armistice www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwis...
When the Guns Fell Silent | IWM
YouTube video by Harringay Online
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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And how suprised are they gonna be to discover they're running the department of 50% nuclear weapons, 15% environmental cleanup, 15% basic science, and then only 20% all the things people assume the DOE does
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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You know Donald Trump is going to love firing Marco Rubio. I can already imagine what that tweet is going to look like.
November 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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This change will not only decimate area studies programs in the US, its distributional impact will be to restrict the study of nonwestern cultures, histories, languages, and literatures to the wealthiest universities only. (Disclosure: I have benefitted from Title VI funding for SE Asia)
Many here will know that HigherEd will be decimated under Project 2025 but if you wanted some details, how about:

Elimination of funding for “Area Studies” (LatAm, Asian, European, African, Middle Eastern Studies). static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
November 11, 2024 at 11:48 AM