Democracy

This brief explains how Congress and the president can best help reduce our country’s outsized reliance on imprisonment. Successful interventions will need to target issues that previous efforts have overlooked or…

As a mother and a human being, the Parkland, Florida school shooting cut me to the core. As I know it did so many of you. And as someone who…

A national campaign demanding that political candidates reject funding from the National Rifle Association (NRA) was launched days after the most recent mass shooting on a school campus in Parkland,…

U.N. member states are now more than halfway through a two-year process of developing a new Global Compact for Refugees (CGR)—one that is designed to improve responses to displacement by…

The first 2.5 gigawatts of foreign-imported solar cells will be excluded from the tariff, giving unprepared companies relying on foreign imported solar cells more breathing room than expected. To give…

There have been four cases of sexual harassment reported in the World Health Organization in 2016, according to an internal audit report presented to the World Health Assembly in May 2017. At a time…

The SDGs cannot be reached without the involvement of community foundations, according to “Local Leadership, Global Impact,” a report the Council on Foundations released. The report evaluates how the more than 1,800…

Basma was in her elementary school classroom near Damascus, Syria when the building was hit. This curious 8-year-old is eager to learn, but violence has displaced her family multiple times.…

North Korea is home to the world’s least reported humanitarian crisis, according to the Switzerland-based NGO Care International. In its “Suffering in Silence” report, the organisation said journalists have concentrated on…

With the most significant tax reform in decades (The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017) in effect as of January 1st, you may be wondering what the implications of…

In the U.S., shifting tariff policy will drive changes in the sources of power generation. But for energy consumers across sub-Saharan Africa, the stakes are much higher. The debate over…

The February 14th shooting in South Florida has already spurred renewed calls for policy changes and other forms of action to prevent future shootings—but such initiatives are informed by the information that’s available,…