As police officers’ use of lethal force has come to dominate the news cycle, considerable evidence has established a connection between police violence and the race of its victims. The dangers of a poorly trained police force extend beyond those posed to speci... More »
A menudo nos encontramos con políticas públicas que buscan incidir de manera directa o indirecta en el empoderamiento de las mujeres y las niñas, pero ¿cómo podemos encontrar en los datos si hubo un aumento (o un retroceso) gracias a dicha intervención y de qu... More »
Information and communications technology (ICT) previously enabled advancements from wireless phone calls to social networking. Recent breakthroughs have connected cars to the ICT network, allowing them to be controlled from a distance and to transmit data to ... More »
Since the broad discovery of climate change in the 1970s, researchers and scientists have attempted to understand its wide-ranging effects. Previous studies have extensively examined the relationship of climate to water access, human health, economic developme... More »
In America today, there is a growing consensus that our politics are becoming increasingly polarized—especially in the U.S. House of Representatives. Many scholars argue that this polarization has had a negative impact on the policy making process. They have a... More »
The “rise of China” has been one of the most popular headlines of the 21st century. Books like Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? and Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline have topped best-seller lists. Authors of the... More »
Discussion surrounding covert action and “hybrid” warfare has recently become a topic of intense interest in academic and policy circles. Russian influence on the 2016 U.S. elections, the increased use of special forces, and the proliferation of cyberwarfare a... More »
The emergence and development of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” has had a substantial impact on global energy production. In the United States, this process, by which water and other chemicals are forced into buried shale rock to extract n... More »
The proliferation of renewable energy such as wind and solar power is rapidly changing the United States’ electrical grid. The growth of renewables has created a need for flexible resources capable of responding quickly to variability in electrical generation—... More »
Recidivism, a person’s relapse into criminal behavior, is a fundamental challenge in criminal justice. While the issue is widely discussed, few solutions have been shown to keep previous offenders from returning to criminal behavior. Part of the issue is the s... More »
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) is designed to help low-income families, as well as the elderly and disabled, cover the cost of “decent, safe, and sanitary housing.” Participants pay a fra... More »
A new study suggests that mandatory physician-led monitoring of opioid prescriptions may be an important tool in the effort to combat opioid abuse. The opioid epidemic is an increasingly serious problem in the United States, with over 50,000 people killed by o... More »