Social Issues

Navajo youths attend a town hall event with Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Navajo Nation casino in Flagstaff, Arizona March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec

What might we expect from Native American voters in the upcoming 2022 election?

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Thursday, December 16, 2021

People march past the Minnesota State Capitol during the Reparations Juneteenth Celebration on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, in St Paul, Minnesota, U.S., June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi

How we repair it: White Americans’ attitudes toward reparations

Ashley V. Reichelmann and Matthew O. Hunt

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

An indigenous elder braids the hair of a child while they await arrest at the US Capitol during a youth-led civil disobedience action against the continued use of fossil fuels, on the fifth and final day of a week of action hosted by People vs. Fossil Fuels. Protesters have two major demands of the Biden Administration; cease approvals of projects for fossil fuel infrastructure and lead a renewable energy transformation. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Separate but unequal: How Tribes, unlike states, face major hurdles to access the most basic public finance tools

Friday, December 3, 2021

Combating racism on social media: 5 key insights on bystander intervention

Melissa Brown, Samantha Elizondo, and Rashawn Ray

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A Brighton High School senior waits for the graduation ceremony being held at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox for greater safety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Growing up as a Black Male Student in White Suburbia: What I learned

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump didn’t invent racism; racism invented Trump and other elected hopefuls

Friday, November 5, 2021

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Introducing the housing policy matchmaker: A diagnostic tool for local officials

Jenny Schuetz, Tim Shaw, Katherine Lucas McKay, and Genevieve Melford

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Members of a NYC homeless advocacy coalition staged a direct action on July 29, 2021 outside City Hall to call out Mayor de Blasios Broken Record on Homelessness. Some participants engaged in an act of civil disobedience, resulting in 9 arrests. The group demand that the Mayor and city agencies act immediately to halt inhumane and poorly executed transfers of single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness from COVID-safe hotels into the unsafe congregate shelter system; stop NYPD street sweeps of people into the shelter system; and for the Mayor to take immediate action on Intro 146, a bill which require the City to pay higher rates in its rental assistance voucher program for homeless New Yorkers, which are currently so low as to be useless for the majority of people who qualify. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

States under time crunch to provide housing assistance: How to fix it

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Signs opposing Critical Race Theory line the entrance to the Loudoun County School Board headquarters, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Reckoning with science, medicine, and scapegoating

Friday, October 29, 2021

The U.S. Capitol is seen through razor wire after police warned that a militia group might try to attack the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

From anti-vaxxer moms to militia men: Influence operations, narrative weaponization, and the fracturing of American identity

Dana Beth Weinberg and Jessica Dawson

October 2021

FILE PHOTO: A person receives a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Acres Home Multi-Service Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo

Discrimination in the healthcare system is leading to vaccination hesitancy

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Matt Barreto, Ray Block, Henry Fernandez, and Raymond Foxworth

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

children playing with ball

Six reasons why an expanded Child Tax Credit or child allowance should be part of the US safety net

Melissa S. Kearney

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

The Tanners Creek Generating Station, a former 1000 MW, coal-fired electrical plant, is being taken down along the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, U.S., September 14, 2017. The plant was shut down in 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER BARGES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Industrial decline and the rise of populists in Russia, the U.S., and Britain

Fiona Hill and David Dollar

Monday, October 11, 2021

October 4, 2021 - Washington, DC, United States: Protesters with signs saying "Don't mess with us", "We will protect our right to abortion", "Bans off our bodies", and "Forced pregagncy is cruel at a protest with pro-life and pro-choice protesters in front of the Supreme Court. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

What if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade?

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

There Is Nothing For You Here

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

Thirteen-year-old Nizhoni Stencil, who is Navajo, and twelve-year-old Tasia Pecos, who is Jemez, prepare for the Grand Entry on the opening night of the 32nd Annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, a Native American dance competition and social gathering, in Taos, New Mexico, U.S., July 7, 2017. Picture taken July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Aligning child welfare with the relational connectedness of ICWA

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich and Jerreed D. Ivanich

Monday, October 4, 2021

U.S. Capitol building and flags at sunrise

Addressing America’s crisis of despair and economic recovery: A call for a coordinated effort

Friday, October 1, 2021

New York City Police Officers (NYPD) transport Saadiq Teague, 18, from the Columbus Circle Transit Bureau Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in third degree; one count for the assault rifle and one for ammunition, and no one count of criminal use of drug paraphernalia after being found with an unloaded semi-automatic gun, ammunition and a gas mask outside a Times Square subway station, in New York City, U.S., April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Biden should end America’s longest war: The War on Drugs

Friday, September 24, 2021

Attendees gather at the Robert E. Lee Monument as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on January 18, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo: Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The art of Black Lives Matter: Lessons for organizations and policymakers from the streets

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

Rashawn Ray, Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger, Samantha Elizondo, and Alexandra Gibbons

Wednesday, September 1, 2021