Costs of War
          
        Stephen Semler
  Co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute
                  
            
                            Research Interests
                      
            
  U.S. foreign policy,   militarism,   U.S. federal budget,   humanitarian responses
          
          
          
          
          
        Biography
Stephen Semler is co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a think tank that works to align U.S. foreign policy with working-class interests. He also writes Polygraph, a data journalism newsletter. He has previously worked in the international humanitarian response to Syria, U.S. federal budget authorizations and appropriations, and policy analysis and advocacy. He is a listed expert with the Forum on the Arms Trade and Economic Hardship Reporting Project.