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People participate in a peaceful memorial for George Floyd at Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn, New York, NY on June 4, 2020. Protests are taking place across the country after the death of George Floyd, while in police custody in Minneapolis, was filmed by a bystander. (Photo by Christopher Lazzaro/Alive Coverage/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Democracy Playbook 2021: 10 Commitments for Advancing Democracy

Susan Corke, Norman Eisen, Jonathan Katz, Andrew Kenealy, James Lamond, Alina Polyakova, and Torrey Taussig · Monday, December 6, 2021

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A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past a sign advertising UN's 'Sustainable development goals' in Ginza.The State of Emergency in Tokyo will last until end of June 2021. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Getting the world unstuck on the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John McArthur

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Russia

What Biden should say to Putin on Ukraine

Steven Pifer

Monday, December 6, 2021

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Community historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape the Evanston’s reparations initiative, points to the borders of the Fifth Ward, which was the area of Evanston the city’s Black citizens were forced to move to due to redlining between 1919 and 1969, in Evanston, Illinois, U.S March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Eileen T. Meslar

Podcast Episode

When is a public policy racist?

William G. Gale and Fred Dews

Friday, November 26, 2021

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To address homelessness, place governance must evolve

Tracy Hadden Loh and Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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Latest Research

A healthcare worker holds a vial with the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the National hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Report

We are not guinea pigs: The effects of negative news on vaccine compliance

Belinda Archibong and Francis Annan

Friday, December 3, 2021

Report

Three lessons for boosting postsecondary education and wages in Black-majority cities

Andre M. Perry, Anthony Barr, and Carl Romer

Friday, December 3, 2021

Europe

Opportunities to deepen NATO-EU cooperation

Giovanna De Maio

December 2021

Global Development

Social and development impact bonds by the numbers

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Onyeka Nwabunnia, and Sarah Osborne

Friday, December 3, 2021

Financial Regulation

An AI fair lending policy agenda for the federal financial regulators

Michael Akinwumi, John Merrill, Lisa Rice, Kareem Saleh, and Maureen Yap

Thursday, December 2, 2021

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Blog Posts

A hostess stands before the opening of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, (FOCAC) in Dakar, Senegal November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

Africa in Focus

FOCAC 2021: China’s retrenchment from Africa?

Yun Sun

Monday, December 6, 2021

Home submerged under water in history flooding in Central Texas

Future Development

Back to the future: Climate change resilience, self-insurance, and market insurance

Olivier Mahul

Monday, December 6, 2021

The Avenue

How Buffalo’s East Side Avenues is training citizen developers to revitalize commercial corridors

Laura Quebral

Monday, December 6, 2021

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Books

Turning Point

By Darrell M. West and John R. Allen

2020

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

The Constitution of Knowledge

By Jonathan Rauch

2021

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Local village voters are seen in the queue with the proper Covid-19 guidelines as they wait to cast their votes on the bi-election as one of a winning candidate had died before the assembly election term ends at Pipili election constituency of Puri district neighbored of the eastern Indian state Odishas capital city Bhubaneswar. Local volunteers help voters to cast their votes smoothly as these areas in today surrounded and keep alerts by the police forces after a little bit violence happened before the polling. EYEPRESS/Biswaranjan Rout

Interpreting India at the Summit for Democracy

Constantino Xavier

Monday, December 6, 2021

Who are the winners in the No Surprises Act?

Loren Adler and Erin Trish

Monday, December 6, 2021

Why is WTO reform so difficult?

Mireya Solís and David Dollar

Monday, December 6, 2021

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa shakes hands with Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara at the the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Africa in the news: Ramaphosa visits West Africa, omicron-induced travel ban provokes backlash, and protests in Sudan and Eswatini continue

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, December 4, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Capitol after the Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. With a government shutdown approaching on Friday, Congress is working to put together a short-term spending compromise while Democrats continue to negotiate President Biden's Build Back Better agenda in a hectic December on the Hill. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

What does Congress need to get done before the holidays?

Molly E. Reynolds and Adrianna Pita

Friday, December 3, 2021

An indigenous elder braids the hair of a child while they await arrest at the US Capitol during a youth-led civil disobedience action against the continued use of fossil fuels, on the fifth and final day of a week of action hosted by People vs. Fossil Fuels. Protesters have two major demands of the Biden Administration; cease approvals of projects for fossil fuel infrastructure and lead a renewable energy transformation. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Separate but unequal: How Tribes, unlike states, face major hurdles to access the most basic public finance tools

Matthew Gregg

Friday, December 3, 2021

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Latest Research

Credit scoring: Improve or eliminate?

Is the NATO-EU divide an obstacle to a European foreign policy?

Technology, inequality, and democracy

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