Industrial policy makes a comeback in Africa

A worker packs cardboard boxes of cocoa liquor at Choco-Ivoire factory in San Pedro October 2, 2010. A new cocoa grinding factory started operations in Ivory Coast this week, director of export firm SAF Cacao Ali Lakiss told Reuters late on Tuesday, nudging Ivory Coast a step closer to being the world's top grinder. Picture taken October 2, 2010. To match interview COCOA-IVORYCOAST/FACTORY REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST - Tags: BUSINESS)

Industrial policy makes a comeback in Africa

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Families flee renewed fighting between Congolese army and M23 rebels near the eastern Congolese city of Goma July 24, 2012. Congolese rebels and government forces traded heavy weapons fire around two eastern villages on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the provincial capital days ahead of a regional summit due to tackle the rebellion. REUTERS/James Akena (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Conflict and land tenure security: What is the relationship?

Paul Prettitore

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Frances Haugen

Could the Facebook papers close the deal on privacy legislation?

Cameron F. Kerry and Jules Polonetsky

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a democracy-themed event for the Double-Tenth National Day, at an airforce base, following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vow to unify Taiwan by peaceful means, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, 9 October 2021. The self ruled island has been facing intensifying military threats from China including record number of fighter jets cruising around Taiwan, whilst building better relations with the US, Australia, Japan and European countries including Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto)

The Biden administration is right to include Taiwan in the Summit for Democracy

Richard C. Bush and Ryan Hass

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Pre K students Malakai Ruth , Maverick McClelland and Liam Vardales , right help Sheila Chambers carry the Kindness Quilt made of drawings of what the preschoolers thought kindness looked like during a presentation at the Pre K class at the YMCA Innovation Hub in Lakeland Fl. Monday Oct. 25 2021.Early Learning Coalition is teaching pre-K students about social and emotional skills to stop bullying. ERNST PETERS/ THE LEDGER102521 Ep Kind 1 News

Staffing and compensation are at the heart of building a better early childhood system

Daphna Bassok, Anna J. Markowitz, Katherine Miller-Baines, and Isabelle Fares

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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The American Rescue Plan opportunity is knocking for local governments. Will they answer?

Brad Whitehead, Isaac Velez, and Eli Byerly-Duke

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

A daycare teacher reads a book to her students.

The ‘real’ economic advantage of investing in families this holiday season

Hailey M. Gibbs, Margaret Burchinal, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, France's President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after posing for the G-7 family photo with guests at the G-7 summit, in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain June 11, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS

Can Biden rally the powerful democracies?

November 2021

Polish police officers stand guard at Bruzgi-Kuznica checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border, as seen from the Grodno region, Belarus, November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

When security in Europe conflicts with democracy in Poland

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Girls’ education research and policy symposium: Protecting rights and futures in times of crisis

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST