After years of displacement, Venezuelan refugees are finally a topic of national discussion in the United States. Since 2014, nearly 7 million Venezuelans have fled their country due to a humanitarian catastrophe and massive violation of human rights, …
Obscure legal doctrines rarely go viral. But that’s exactly what happened on December 12, 2020, when then-President Donald J. Trump took to Twitter to complain about his treatment at the hands of the federal judiciary. “The Supreme Court had ZERO interest …
The recently launched Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)—a G-7 initiative to mobilize $600 billion in loans and grants for sustainable, quality infrastructure projects in developing and emerging economies—aims to provide much- …
Afghanistan’s year under the Taliban has been grim. The country went into economic collapse with the Taliban takeover and U.S. troop withdrawal last August, as aid dried up, sanctions against the Taliban went into effect, and a regime lacking international …
For years, Democrats believed that the demographic changes from immigration would eventually shift the political balance in their favor. Doubts began to emerge in 2016, when Donald Trump improved on Mitt Romney’s performance among Hispanics despite his …
What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Using the …
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been tasked with using the best available science to regulate pesticides in order to ensure they are safe. But a mounting body of evidence indicates that the agency long-heralded for its …
In 1899, W.E.B. Du Bois published “The Philadelphia Negro,” a first-of-its-kind sociological case study of a Black community, combining urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics. Its novel use of data to identify racial inequity …
In a Hamilton Project proposal, author Erica R.H. Fuchs of Carnegie Mellon University and the National Bureau of Economic Research proposes the creation of a national capability for cross-mission critical technology analytics to build the intellectual …
On Monday, the Senate advanced a bill to keep funding federal operations through mid-December—a key step towards keeping the government open when the calendar turns to the new fiscal year on Saturday. A shutdown may be unlikely, but this round of fiscal …
For decades the service sector has driven the economy in the United States. Is there a role for industrial policy in sustaining this growth? Dani Rodrik (Harvard University) has written a policy proposal that explains how a modern industrial policy …
Fact 1: Recovery in the demand for services has lagged behind recent business cycles. The immediate period following a business cycle peak has historically been marked by initial weakness in goods spending, while services spending typically has been little …
Mexican soldiers patrol roads due to the increase of violence in the municipality of Jerez de Garcia ... [+] Salinas, in Zacatecas state, Mexico, on March 14, 2022. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP) (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty …
Cannabis reform has grown in popularity with voters, activists, and state legislators; cannabis is now legal for medical use in 38 states and DC and for adult-use in 19 states and DC. Despite those advances in state level reforms and in the broader …
Comment on this story Comment Economist Don Kohn, 79, spent 40 years in the Federal Reserve System, serving as a member and then vice chair of the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2010. Now he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He lives in …
Is the situation in the Taiwan Strait on a one-way escalator to eventual conflict? Given the persistent ratcheting up of tensions in the Taiwan Strait in recent years, it is becoming easier for analysts to argue that the situation will continue to escalate …
The eyes of the world will turn to Beijing as the 20th Party Congress gets underway this October. Taking place at a perilous time in global affairs – amid a war in Europe, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and widespread economic unease – the personnel and …
In late June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a landmark decision grossly out of step with how Americans feel about abortion. Polling immediately following the Roe reversal showed it exacerbated already crashing public trust in the Court and …
Scientists have long been developing machines that attempt to imitate the human brain. Just as humans are exposed to systemic injustices, machines learn human-like stereotypes and cultural norms from sociocultural data, acquiring biases and associations in …
This section contains the values and relative ranking for each indicator in The Black Progress Index model of life expectancy. For each variable, the largest value corresponds to the 100th percentile regardless of that variable’s impact on life expectancy. …
