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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden addresses supporters as Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) looks on at his South Carolina primary night rally in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

FixGov

Do voters want to hear from party leaders? Some intriguing new polling

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Defending democracy against its adversaries

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDT

Two gas flaring furnaces and a woman walking on sand barriers are reflected in a pool of oil-smeared water at a flow station in Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria September 17, 2020. Picture taken September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: COVID’s impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector

Friday, April 16, 2021

Students laugh and share a joke outside their classroom at the Sudan University of Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan, May 14, 2015. In Sudan, which faces insurgences in the western region of Darfur and along its border with breakaway South Sudan, as well as double-digit inflation and high unemployment, life goes on for young people in the capital Khartoum. As well as studying, for those who can afford it, the urban young of Sudan play football and netball, swim and fish in the nearby River Nile, attend prayers at local mosques and enjoy concerts or family celebrations. Other entertainment includes watching U.K. football matches and films on TV, with Facebook being ever popular for chatting amongst friends. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin AbdallahPICTURE 11 OF 28 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "YOUTH OF TODAY IN SUDAN". SEARCH "YOUNG NURELDIN" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000121814

Africa in Focus

The future of work in Africa: Opportunities and challenges of digital technologies

Thursday, November 7, 2019

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 3: Teddy Bears are seated to maintain distance between tables at Flavio Restaurant in Georgetown on Thursday, September 3, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Op-Ed

The rise of covidnomics

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

World leaders appear on a video screen during a virtual Climate Summit with world leaders in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Mozambique, Chad, and climate change updates

Leo Holtz, Tamara White, and Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 1, 2021

President Joe Biden holds a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C. on Thursday, April 1, 2021. President Biden announced that he is asking five cabinet members to explain his jobs plan to the American public. Photo by Leigh Vogel/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COMPhoto by Leigh Vogel/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

FixGov

The changing faces of Cabinet diversity, George Washington through Joe Biden

Lindsay Chervinsky and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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Education Plus Development

The Sunset of the LMTF: Next steps in tracking learning for the SDGs (Part 2)

Kate Anderson, Albert Motivans, and Tyler Ditmore

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Innovating development strategies in Africa: The role of international, regional, and national actors

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump departs at the conclusion of his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis/POOL

FixGov

How inexperienced candidates and primary challenges are making Republicans the protest party

Raymond J. La Raja and Jonathan Rauch

Monday, June 29, 2020

An eighth grade STEM classroom at Howard Street Charter School, now open in its new location in downtown Salem on Jan. 28, 2020.Howardstreetcharterschool Ar 10

Brown Center Chalkboard

How Democrats can compromise on charter schools to benefit all students

Mona Vakilifathi

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Soraya, 25, a Muslim from the Tzotzil Maya ethnic group, works at the craft store in San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas state, Mexico, August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH "TZOTZIL MAYA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC181D43AD80

Education Plus Development

Investing in women’s entrepreneurship creates educational opportunities for girls in Mexico

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Workers sort avocados at a farm factory in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga province, about 51 miles (82 km) north of the Swaziland border, South Africa, June 14, 2018. Picture taken June 14, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1635FD15B0

Africa in Focus

Creating one market under the African Free Trade Area: Progress and challenges

H.E. Albert Muchanga

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

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Report

The politics of Section 230 reform: Learning from FOSTA’s mistakes

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, Mozambique's Prime Minister Luisa Diogo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Niall FitzGerald, Deputy Chairman, Thomson Reuters, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, and former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (L-R) attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND) - BM2E51U0VKA01

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: JP Morgan Chase plans Africa expansion, Davos meetings attract African leaders, and Total SA builds oil pipeline in Kenya

Friday, January 26, 2018