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 »
Sarah Elisabeth Huber is a Student-at-Large from the University of Vienna, studying at Harris School of Public Policy and at the College.After years of controversy and sanctions, the contested Nord Stream 2 pipeline project has been put on hold by the German g... More »
Ran Cheng is an MPP candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy.China is indulging in coal again. It built 38.4GW of new coal-fired power installations in 2020, three times as much as the rest of the world. The expansion continued in 2021 and early 2022. G... More »
This article was co-authored by Allison Swimmer, Matilde Tinazzi Martini, Ilina Mitra, and Jose Villalobos Gonzalez. All are first year MPP candidates at University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. From unfounded theories about homeopathic COVID-19 ... More »
The joint US, EU, and G7 allies sanctions regime against Russia is unprecedented in scope, magnitude, and timing. The ‘Western’ alliance has targeted a broad range of Russian institutions, entities, and domestic industries. Additional sanctions have been dire... More »
As Russia encroaches on Ukraine’s sovereignty, it bears remembering: the United States currently has over a thousand nuclear weapons currently deployed, hundreds of which can be launched in five minutes of the President deciding to initiate a strike. Russia is... More »
The murder of George Floyd, committed by a former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer in an extremely gruesome and heinous fashion, caught the world’s attention and shed light on other unjust slayings. However, police killings are not new. Data collect... More »
Article co-authored by Ellie Vorhaben.This piece comes as a follow up to a prior article concerning Facebook’s limited legal liability from the whistleblower. We’ve watched the same scene play out over and over. Reporters reveal another negative impact of soci... More »
With the Atlanta spa shootings earlier this year, and the pandemic exacerbating incendiary rhetoric about Asian Americans, violence has become a regular conversation topic in my circles. My Asian-American friends share stories about street harassment, while my... More »
While most countries endured harsh lockdowns during March 2020, Swedes went on with their lives largely as before, indulging in nightlife, visiting elderly relatives, and so on. Government officials hoped that a large enough portion of the Swedish population w... More »
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 ... More »
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 m... More »