Commentary
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Towards A More Transparent Regulation for Online Targeted Ads
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Mohamed Suliman is a researcher at Northeastern University Civic AI lab with a degree in engineering he is also a regular contributor to Global Voices where he writes about tech issues. Big tech companies are notoriously secretive about how they operate online advertisements. Often they release only the minimal data…
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Reallocating Funds to Education: A Better Chance for Youth
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Carly Domicolo is a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board and an alumna of the Writing Persuasive Public Policy Credential Program at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Calls to defund the police are louder than ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis more…
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China-US Dispute On Clean Energy: Economic and Geopolitical Stakes
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Jean Vilbert is an academic in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and a Resident Fellow at the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (University of Wisconsin). A recent report from the International Energy Agency shows that in 2020, renewable electricity production increased at its fastest pace in…
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Venezuela’s Shameful Secret
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Tamara Pilot is an Assistant Vice President at the University of Chicago, Global Initiatives and Strategy (Uchicago Global). The young woman covered her face with a shaking hand. She was exhausted and scared. The metal birthing chair did not have a cushion or vinyl covering, and she shivered in the…
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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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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,…
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Black Maternal Mortality Rates in Chicago: Why the Recently Passed IL 1115 Waiver Is Not Enough
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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 via LinkedIn. Severe maternal morbidity is not…