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 »
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, renewa... More »
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 ... More »
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 storie... More »
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 t... More »
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... 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 »