Governance Studies

Community members march down El Paseo shopping district in Palm Desert in rebuke of the shutdown mandate by the state government to stop the spread of COVID-19 on December 9, 2020.Coivd Protest

Why America has great science but terrible politics

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

When playing online, gamers should be extremely cautious in order to avoid downloading malware.

Digitizing civic spaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Maya Gros and Norman Eisen

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Edwin Avent (C) participates with students in a learning exercise at a summer session of a charter school called Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., July 30, 2019. Avent co-founded Black Professional Men Inc. in 1991 to lift up African-American men, offering lessons in topics from financial literacy to rap music. Black Professional Men has mentored 3,000 boys and awarded 225 college scholarships, using education and positive reinforcement to divert youth away from gangs, drugs and guns. "What we're doing is building black boys into the next generation of doctors, lawyers, scientists and leaders, maybe even the next Barack Obama," said Avent. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Social networks and economic mobility–what the findings reveal

Sarah Nzau, Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Kwadwo Frimpong

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

General view of the U.S. Capitol as the House of Representatives takes up debate of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Pension bills have always been bipartisan. Not anymore.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

April 22, 2009 - Whitehaven High School's debate team is sending two people to the Chase National Urban Debate League Championships in Chicago. English teacher and debate coach Quintina Merriweather (Left) talks to team members in the school library.Ddebate1 2989509 2

Debate-centered instruction can be new classroom tool for civility and racial justice

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A man wearing a protective face mask walks under surveillance cameras as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

TechTank Podcast Episode 14: How companies surveil workers and ways employees can protect themselves

Darrell M. West

Monday, March 8, 2021

Representative Mondaire Jones (D-NY) during a press conference about H.R. 1 at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday March 3, 2021. Today the House will vote on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, an election reform bill pushed by Democrats, as Congressional negotiations over additional COVID relief continue. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The case for a civil rights exception to the filibuster

Monday, March 8, 2021

A U.S. flag decorates a for-sale sign at a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, August 21, 2012. President Barack Obama said on Monday the U.S. housing market was "beginning to tick up" but was still not where it needs to be. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS) - GM1E88M0DXE01

Algorithms and housing discrimination: Rethinking HUD’s new disparate impact rule

John Villasenor and Virginia Foggo

Friday, March 5, 2021

A vial of the Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen at Northwell Health's South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, New York, U.S., March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine: Progress, and equity questions for the next phase

Elaine Kamarck and William A. Galston

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Teacher Jessica Crane greets her first grade students virtually from her classroom at the Kelly Elementary School on the first day of the new school year in a city hard hit by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

With digital savvy, teachers can enliven America’s classrooms

Thursday, March 4, 2021