Vanessa Williamson

People come and go from the Registrar of Voters office on the final day of voter registration in the upcoming congressional elections in San Diego, California, U.S. October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1956981AF0

Red-tape voter suppression: How new, draconian voter registration rules undermine voting rights

Vanessa Williamson and Jackson Gode

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

A sign is seen above a check cashing and loan shop in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - S1AETHQAPEAA

Understanding the uproar over IRS refunds

Jackson Gode and Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Protesters wearing yellow vests gather in front of the Opera House as part of the "yellow vests" movement in Paris, France, December 15, 2018. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann - RC180E57DFC0

What France’s Yellow Vest protests reveal about the future of climate action

Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Shoppers leave a Walmart store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski - RC131194DA70

Christmas cheer is not a policy solution

Andre M. Perry and Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

When does better policy information change minds?

Vanessa Williamson

Friday, December 7, 2018

U.S. 1040A Individual Income Tax forms are seen at a U.S. Post office

Tax cuts: The gift that keeps not giving

Vanessa Williamson and Jackson Gode

Thursday, September 27, 2018

People visit the makeshift memorial to car attack victim Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1D3A3DD0D0

In Charlottesville, proof of America’s utter failure to reckon with the brutal legacy of slavery

Camille Busette and Vanessa Williamson

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Thayer - RC1AECFD3360

SCOTUS’s labor decisions: Bad news for working people, and a taste of what’s to come

Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

A Black Lives Matter protester stands in front of St. Louis Police Department officers equipped with riot gear after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer, charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., September 15, 2017. Photo taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC162B2292E0

New data show that police violence predicts Black Lives Matter protests

Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, May 17, 2018

A woman, who has been displaced by floods, uses a USAID box to move her belongings while taking refuge on an embankment at Chandan Mori village in Dadu, some 320 km (199 miles) north of Karachi October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - RTXT9RN

Americans overestimate foreign aid? Not so fast.

Vanessa Williamson

Monday, March 19, 2018