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Hurricane Katrina holdout Creek sits on the porch of his house in front of the Memorial Medical Center of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina holdout Joshua Creek sits on the porch of his house in front of the Memorial Medical Center of New Orleans September 13, 2005. The discovery of at least 44 bodies in an abandoned hospital in New Orleans raised new questions about the response to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday as President George W. Bush took full responsibility for government failures in handling the disaster. Pictures of the Year 2005 REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Time will not heal: 5 ways to address the inheritance of Black poverty, starting now

Richard V. Reeves · Friday, June 11, 2021

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Senate Republicans and Democrats agree: Time to close regional economic divides

Thursday, June 10, 2021

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Courts & Law

Reining in overly broad interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

John Villasenor

Monday, June 7, 2021

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A supply depot servicing the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline lies idle in Oyen, Alberta, Canada February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Todd Korol

Podcast Episode

What does the end of the Keystone pipeline mean for US energy?

Samantha Gross and Adrianna Pita

Friday, June 11, 2021

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Global Health

We are a long way from vaccinating the world. Could a patent waiver help?

David Dollar and Matthew M. Kavanagh

Monday, June 7, 2021

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Latest Research

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Poverty hurts the boys the most: Inequality at the intersection of class and gender

Richard V. Reeves and Sarah Nzau

Monday, June 14, 2021

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Telecommunications & Internet

Countering disinformation and protecting democratic communication on encrypted messaging applications

Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley

June 2021

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Long shadows: The Black-white gap in multigenerational poverty

Scott Winship, Christopher Pulliam, Ariel Gelrud Shiro, Richard V. Reeves, and Santiago Deambrosi

Thursday, June 10, 2021

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Higher Education

Higher education performance and accountability: Insights from a new visualization tool

Leonardo Restrepo and Lesley Turner

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

A man walks inside the World Trade Center after the government announced that private and state companies will reopen their offices after almost two months of lockdown amidst concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Report

Social and economic impact of COVID-19

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Filippini

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Events

The art of war in an age of peace

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Russia resurrected: Its power and purpose in a new global order

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

President Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: Reexamining his legacy forty years later

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the investments in the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris looked on as President Biden delivered remarks aimed at pressuring Republicans to support his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan. Photo by Leigh Vogel/Pool/Sipa USANo Use Germany.

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 21: Is Biden’s American Jobs Plan the beginning of a Tech New Deal?

Nicol Turner Lee

Monday, June 14, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA MAY 31, 2021: A student sits in a classroom before a Unified State Exam (EGE) in literature at Secondary Comprehensive School No 2097. The Unified State Exam is a series of graduation exams for secondary school students, which also serves as preliminary exam in universities. Sergei Bobylev/TASS.No use Russia.

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Do principals hold the key to fixing school discipline?

Monday, June 14, 2021

A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Abuja, Nigeria June 5, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Elephant overpopulation in Zimbabwe, famine in Tigray, and Twitter ban in Nigeria

Leo Holtz, Tamara White, and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, June 12, 2021

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Books

Cvr: Turning Point

Turning Point

By Darrell M. West and John R. Allen

2020

Cover: Know Your Price

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

Cvr: The Constitution of Knowledge

Upcoming

The Constitution of Knowledge

By Jonathan Rauch

2021

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The brutal truth about Bitcoin

Monday, June 14, 2021

People walk past a poster showing Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Chinese leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao on the Potala Palace Square during a government-organised media tour to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China June 1, 2021. Picture taken June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Martin Pollard

The clash of systems? Washington should avoid ideological competition with Beijing

Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss

Foreign Affairs Friday, June 11, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he delivers a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Debbie Hill/Pool

America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness

Shibley Telhami

Friday, June 11, 2021

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The wisdom of small crowds: The case for using Citizens’ Juries to shape policy

Kyle Bozentko, Ashleigh Maciolek, Richard V. Reeves, and Hannah Van Drie

Friday, June 11, 2021

Linda Dennis (L) sits with her 11-year-old family member Sharee Nelo (R) inside the L.A. Sports Area in Los Angeles, California, December 20, 2009. Thousands of bicycles and toys were given away to families in need during The Dream Center Christmas in the City event. Dennis and her family waited in line outside for over 16 hours, including sleeping overnight, to ensure they were one of the families to receive the and gifts. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)

The race gap in multigenerational poverty; Census 2020 findings

William H. Frey, Richard V. Reeves, Scott Winship, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 11, 2021

FBI Director Louis Freeh has had the Khobar Towers bombing case reassignedto federal prosecutors in Virginia, over strong objections from U.S.Attorney Wilma Lewis, according to reports in both U.S. News and WorldReport, and Time magazine published on March 23, 2001. U.S. News said Freehtook the unusual step of reassigning the case because he had grownfrustrated by missteps in the investigation of the bombing of the U.S.military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemembers. The complex is shown after the June, 1996 attack. REUTERS/Dept.RC/SV

The deadly legacy of Khobar Towers

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 10, 2021