Governance Studies

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess for the lame duck session, the 7-day average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in America is holding above 150,000. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Institutional hardball–in Congress and the White House–and the legislative road ahead, part 1

Janna Deitz and Sarah A. Binder

Library of Congress Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A Gastonia Police officer stands by a shell casing on New Hope Road near the scene of a shooting at the Ingco Express at 2741 Lowell Bethesda Road in Gastonia Tuesday evening.ghows_gallery-NC-610009996-cb496dee.jpg

Examining equity in transportation safety enforcement

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, during his swearing in confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, DC U.S., February 22, 2021. Demetrius Freeman/Pool via REUTERS

Merrick Garland, cannabis policy, and restorative justice

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Jordan Jansen, 12, does school work at the kitchen table in his family's Middletown home Jan. 25, 2021. The Jansen's four school aged children are doing full time virtual learning as their parents have opted to keep them home for the entire school year due to COVID-19 concerns.Learning Curve

Educators are key in protecting student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marty Swanbrow Becker

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Law, legal, judge concept. Lady justice with USA flag in background

If it’s Broke, Fix it

Norman Eisen, Virginia Canter, Claire Finkelstein, Joseph Foti, Richard Painter, Walter M. Shaub, Jr., and Anne Weismann

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Students attend a protest rally to call for urgent action to slow the pace of climate change, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Transforming natural resource governance: Break silos, sharpen politics

Norman Eisen, Michael Jarvis, Suneeta Kaimal, Daniel Kaufmann, Kelsey Landau, Robin J. Lewis, Allison Merkel, Mario Picon, and Erica Westenberg

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, in this photo illustration, May 2, 2013. Facebook Inc's mobile advertising revenue growth gained momentum in the first three months of the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets, partially offsetting higher spending which weighed on profits. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - GM1E9530ENS01

Facebook’s Oversight Board makes an imperfect case for private governance

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Black Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic. Here’s how to make the vaccine rollout more equitable

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A girl gets an African-Colombian hairstyle during the Afro-hairstyles X Competition in Cali June 1, 2014. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga (COLOMBIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

Penalizing Black hair in the name of academic success is undeniably racist, unfounded, and against the law

Howard Henderson and Jennifer Wyatt Bourgeois

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A classroom sits empty ahead of the statewide school closures in Ohio in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, inside Milton-Union Exempted Village School District in West Milton, Ohio, U.S., March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot REFILE - CORRECTING NAME OF SCHOOL

Understanding COVID-19-era enrollment drops among early-grade public school students

Daphna Bassok and Anna Shapiro

Monday, February 22, 2021