European Reparations: Strengthening Cooperation and Resetting Relations with Developing Nations
In February of 2022, the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) convened at their annual diplomatic summit. Leaders forged the Cotonou Agreement, which promised ...
Inflation, Explained with Dr. Harry Holzer
GPPR Podcast Editor Joe Lustig (MPP-EP ’24) speaks with McCourt Professor and prominent economist Dr. Harry Holzer to talk about one of the most salient ...
Want to Reverse Negative Ridership Trends? Ask the Riders What They Want
On October 11, 2022, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg spoke at a moderated town hall hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service ...
10 Years After Sandy Hook: Gun-Violence in the United States has Only Gotten Worse
December 14th, 2022 marked the 10 year anniversary of the Sandy Hook School massacre, a day in which 20 children and 6 teachers were murdered ...
Restoring Honor: How Military Discharge Upgrade Law Changes Lives
GPPR Podcast Editor Kharl Reynado (MPP’23) spoke to Margaret Kuzma from the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School and Alden Pinkham from the Connecticut ...
Criminal Liability of Corporations in India – An Environmental Perspective
In August 2022, the National Crime Records Bureau produced its yearly Crime in India Report, 2021, which showed an increase in registered environment-related offenses as ...
The Uphill Battle for VA Benefits and How the PACT Act Hopes to Help
GPPR Podcast Editor Kharl Reynado (MPP ’23) spoke with Amy Antioho, the widow of Peter Antioho, an Army Officer who passed away after exposure to ...
Abstracting Redistricting: Non-Geographic Evaluation of the 2022 Congressional Maps
Discussions of redistricting throughout history have focused almost solely on the shape of the legislative maps; cuts through cities or across bays, awkward ...
#PenceatGU – A Missed Opportunity
A lot has been written, said, and discussed about former Vice President Pence’s visit to Georgetown University, from the walkout, to the protests, to whether ...
Immigration, Public Interest Technology, and Leadership Lessons, with Cecilia Muñoz
GPPR Podcast Editor Brian Marroquín (MPM ’22) speaks with Cecilia Muñoz, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama administration – the first ...
10 Years Later: Reviewing the Promise of a Tech-Forward U.S. Government
On January 18, 2022, the Biden Administration launched COVIDTest.gov, the at-home test ordering service. The site was a single webpage with sparse hyperlinks to the ...
Our Geopolitical Future Rests in the Hands of Technology [FALL FEATURE]
Competition & Innovation: SCSP Releases New Report and Hosts Global Emerging Technologies Summit By Alisha Saxena (she/her), Editor in Chief *Author Note: quotes were transcribed ...
Reflective Representation: A Path to Better Governance?
Breaking It Down is GPPR’s new series focused on explaining emerging and endorsed solutions for various policy problems. In this second installment, I explain the ...
The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, 2022: A Subnational Problem-Solving Approach to International Relations
President Biden recently announced that the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will be December 13th-15th, 2022. According to the White House, the Leaders Summit will “demonstrate the ...
Opening the Gates: Access Rules Wants Society to Pressure Big Tech to Share Their Data
Note: GPPR received a complimentary copy of the book Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future in exchange for our honest ...
Ranked Choice Voting: The Future of Electoral Reform
Breaking It Down is GPPR’s new series focused on explaining emerging and endorsed solutions for various policy problems. In this first installment, I explain the ...
Sino-Russian Entente and the Challenge to Liberal World Order
Introduction As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its sixth month, one of the less talked-about outcomes of the conflict is the growing rapprochement between ...
Racial Inequity in Healthcare: Examining Corporate Accountability in Achieving Health Equity
Racial health inequity is an ongoing crisis in America, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CDC, 21.8% and 33.8% of all COVID-19 cases ...
Representing a Younger Generation with Connecticut State Senator William Haskell
GPPR Podcast Editor Eleazar Weissman (MPP ’23) speaks with Connecticut State Senator and Georgetown alum, William Haskell. As Connecticut’s youngest state senator, Senator Haskell offers ...
How Data Disaggregation Improves Public Policy, with Professor Amy O’Hara
GPPR Podcast Editor Kharl Reynado (MPP '23) spoke with Amy O'Hara, Research Professor in the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy ...
Systemic Fraud Behind Dutch Political Upheaval
This time last year, the political climate in the Netherlands was facing utter chaos. In the middle of an ongoing pandemic, the Dutch government resigned ...
The Role of Community Foundations in Public Policy, with Sol Anderson
GPPR Podcast Editor Brian Marroquín (MPM ’22) spoke with Sol Anderson, the President & CEO of the Evanston Community Foundation, about the role of community ...
Health & Equity: Administrative Burdens and the CARES Act
GPPR Podcast Editor Kyra Brown (MPP '23) spoke with McCourt Professor Pamela Herd about some of the bureaucratic obstacles people encounter when trying to access ...
Entering the IoT Era: Is it Too Late to Save Privacy?
We live in an increasingly interconnected world, where our embrace of digital technology continues to blur the lines between public and private. The formation of ...
Visualizing the Fentanyl Epidemic
By Aaron Till
/ December 7, 2023
Fentanyl is responsible for a disproportionate number of drug overdose deaths. The only way to curtail the growing crisis is...
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Opening the Gates: Access Rules Wants Society to Pressure Big Tech to Share Their Data
By Alisha Saxena (she/her), Editor in Chief
/ August 29, 2022
Note: GPPR received a complimentary copy of the book Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future...
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Considerations for Reducing the Social Isolation of Our Seniors: A Conversation with Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Robert Torres and Harry M. Baturin
By Harry Baturin
/ July 20, 2020
Robert Torres is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging. He recently spoke with Harry M. Baturin, an instructor at Georgetown University/Core...
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U.S. Climate Policy in 2024: A Conversation with Trevor Higgins
By Georgetown Public Policy Review and Moritz Ludwig (MPP '25)
/ April 29, 2024
In a conversation on U.S. climate policy, Junior Podcast Editor Moritz Ludwig (MPP ’25) and Trevor Higgins, Senior Vice...
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The Past and Present of U.S-Africa policy, and how the youth will shape its future with Melvin Foote
By Georgetown Public Policy Review and Mike Saunders (MPM ’24)
/ April 23, 2024
GPPR Podcast Editor Mike Saunders (MPM' 24) spoke with Melvin Foote, the Founder and President of the Constituency For Africa (CFA), about...
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