With the imminent return to campus, several school systems have eliminated the remote learning option entirely for the 2021-2022 school year in order to maximize in-person learning and reduce last year’s learning loss. However, the rise of the delta variant an... More »
The United Nations Environment Programme has assessed that global emissions must drop 7.6% annually from 2020 through 2030 to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. A pre... More »
Dharrnesha Inbah Rajah is a MA in International Development and Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.Beyond witnessing one of the worst pandemics in modern times, 2020 was also the warmest year on record and saw h... More »
Eliana Fram is a MA in International Development and Policy Candidate at Harris School of Public Policy.The teacher points to the blackboard and asks emphatically, “What is an email?” She is asking not because her students do not know the answer, but because s... More »
On May 12th, in the aftermath of the SolarWinds cyber-attack, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to strengthen the United States’ cybersecurity infrastructure and practices. The order covered a broad list of topics, including new policies, processe... More »
For a brief moment in 1988, America seemed ready to confront climate change. Scientist James Hansen’s senate testimony on rising temperatures received widespread media coverage, a Global Climate Protection Act passed with bipartisan support in Congress, and ev... More »
Open water fishery crisis is one of the greatest “tragedies of the commons. Although open water fish stocks are a public resource, governments have degraded their value by subsidizing fisheries. According to the World Trade Organization, governments spend betw... More »
Consider bans of the headscarf, which stem from a moral objection to the object and the value system it symbolizes. A policymaker who advocates for the ban might believe that it would be for the “good” of the women affected by it in opposing a patriarchal symb... More »
Sara Bovat ‘21 graduated with a MA in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy . She can be reached ... More »
Michael Kremer is a development economist and University Professor in Economics at the College and the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. A 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economics, he joined the University of Chicago in 2020, and has since founded... More »
Natalia Khosla ‘22 is a MS 4 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at nkhosla@uchicago.edu or natalia.khosla@uchospitals.edu.During one of my medical rotations, my team and I were taking care of a patient stuck in a vicio... More »
Vivek Kumar is a 2021 Graduate student from the Harris School of Public Policy. His policy interests lie around gender based empowerment in South Asia.“Even if I work outside as a laborer and bring home 200 rupees every day, I will still get a beating from my ... More »