Editor in Chief
Laicie Heeley (@laicie) is the founder and editor of Inkstick and the host and executive producer of the PRX- and Inkstick-produced podcast, Things That Go Boom. She is also a Partner with the Truman National Security Project. Laicie's work has appeared in well-known newspapers, journals, and periodicals including Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press, and she has appeared as an expert on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
Skepticism surrounding the Trump administration’s approach towards Iran has been on full display following recent attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. While Secretary of State…
If you want to know how sanctions are playing out in Iran — look no further than the classified ads. You’ll find folks selling unused cosmetics, pets, and… something even more unusual.…
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy,…
Since President Donald Trump announced: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump presidency,” his advisers have been looking at ways to stay. Less…
Money in politics is a little bit like an iceberg — there’s the stuff you can see, like lobbying firms, and then there’s all the stuff below the waterline. On this episode of Things…
Almost everyone has heard of Godzilla, even if they’ve never seen a Godzilla movie. What most people don’t know is the famous monster’s connection to nuclear weapons. Sixty-five…
Summer is near and Congress has begun to grapple with the Trump administration’s Pentagon budget proposal in earnest. While there are some hopeful signs, much more needs to be done to rein…
As the 2020 presidential campaigns get underway, there’s an important opportunity for the candidates to articulate the mid to long-term Chinese threat to the US public in a way that has…
Before they were enemies, the US and Iran used to have a thing. In fact, we started their nuclear program. Like any failed relationship… it’s not just one thing that led us all here.…
Every first-year political science major has had to sit through at least one lecture on realism. As a proud political science major myself, I can easily distill the main tenets of realism,…