Imagine one day being awoken to a sound like a bomb-blast, and all you can see or feel is a cloud of dust and smoke. For many residents of Chicago’s Little Village in 2020, when a discontinued industrial smokestack was imploded, this was a reality. For decades... More »
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where football overshadowed all else. I spent every fall Friday evening at high school football games, every Saturday afternoon at college games, and every Sunday watching my father and brothers anguish over their long-suffering ... More »
In December 2022, the European Union (EU) approved an 18 billion euro aid package to Ukraine to bolster its economy amidst Russia’s invasion. This follows approximately 2.5 billion euros in EU military aid to Ukraine between February and July 2022. The EU has ... More »
Negin Moayer is an Iranian immigrant, architect, Chicago resident, and business owner. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.Over the past three months under the watchful eye of the ... More »
This August, California legislators proposed an ambitious, sweeping ban prohibiting the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 in an effort to reduce vehicle emissions and fight climate change. California leads the nation in efforts to limit the rapid warm... More »
This is derived from an Analytical Politics assignment by Rimjhim Agrawal, Sief Salameh, Jahnvi Agarwal, Riddhi Kankaria.On Jan. 25, 2011, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square for a “Day of Revolution” to mark the start of nationwide prote... More »
I spent most of my day one Friday in August listening to speeches on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, while dutifully manning the phones for constituent calls. This is not an activity I’d recommend. While I agreed with about half of the... More »
When leaders from across the Western Hemisphere departed President Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, they left largely empty-handed. Despite fanfare and bold proclamations of an “Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity,” the Summit amounted t... More »
Imagine you’re comfortably dozing in bed at your partner’s home in the early hours of the morning. Suddenly, around 6 am, you jerk awake as the sound of loud voices permeates the room and you open your eyes in the semi-darkness to see two police officers with ... More »
On October 21, 2020, President Donald Trump signed the most dangerous and reckless executive order of his presidency. Executive Order 13957 established “Schedule F,” reclassifying all policy or rulemaking federal employees as “at will” employees within the exe... More »
Mark Sheppard is a current Economics PhD student at CUNY Graduate Center. He is an alumnus of both the Harris School of Public Policy (MPP ’21) and Georgetown University (MA ’19). He is also a former Executive Board member of the Chicago Policy Review.As the F... More »
True political moments represent a chance to try and right a historical wrong. The infrastructure bill signed into law last November creates a unique political moment to make marginal progress on longstanding issues of racial justice. Too often policy windows ... More »