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Illinois Mandates Comprehensive Sex Education in Schools
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An education should prepare students to engage in a meaningful, productive way with the world. While academic achievement takes center-stage in our approach to this education, we often fail to provide adequate support for social development. In the United States, this failure extends to the pursuit of healthy social relationships.…
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To Reclaim a Shared Reality We Need Storytellers, Not fact-checkers
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The antidote to a lie is the truth. The cure for fabricated news stories is fact-checking. Right? Of course not. If that were true, all the fact checking done over the past five years would have effectively established a shared truth, and fabricated news stories would spread only until debunked.…
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Transparency in Diversity Action at the University of Chicago
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Guy Whittall-Scherfee recently completed the Writing Persuasive Policy Program with the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. America’s universities are facing a crisis of their own creation. Despite a growing population and increased effort to support higher education, attendance at universities nationwide has decreased. This is not due…
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Managing India’s COVID Crisis through Human Capital Reform
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Abhishek Yadav contributed to this article. After soldiering through the first COVID-19 wave with a national lockdown and a relatively low death count, India lost a devastating battle with the second wave. Total deaths, which peaked in April, have climbed up to nearly 400,000, but are likely grossly under-reported as…
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The City Is Not Designed for Women
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As stated by author and feminist-issues researcher Caroline Criado-Perez, the world is designed mostly by men with mostly other men in mind. The gender-based gap in data has been known to exist for a long time, and male-biased data has affected the living experiences of women in oft-realized but nether-talked…
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Why Do People Forgive Corrupt Politicians?
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The case of Hilario Ramírez, a Mexican politician who, amid a reelection campaign admitted to having stolen from the treasury, “just a bit,” he argued, is more than a simple piece of Latin American political folklore. “Layín”—as Ramírez is also known—was mayor of San Blas, a costal Mexican city, from…
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Addressing Mental Health in the Return to School
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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 and inconsistency in state governance has bred confusion across school…
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How to Accelerate the Electric Vehicle Transition
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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 previous Chicago Policy Review article discussed the critical importance of transportation decarbonization to…
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Climate Change is Disproportionally Affecting Mental Health in Developing Countries
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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 horrifying wildfires from the U.S. to Australia.…
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Internet Access: Half the World Is Muted
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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 she wants them to answer using…
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Human Behavior: The Missing Element of the Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order
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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, processes, and technologies to strengthen the security of Federal and private assets. However,…