Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Since his election as pope in March 2013, much attention has been given to Pope Francis’ commentary on public policy issues. His first visit outside of Rome was to the island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Italy, where he condemned global indifference to the plight of refugees, thousands of whom have died trying to […]
To understand Ferguson—the place itself, the events that transpired there in the last year, and its resonance as a metaphor for twenty-first century race relations—one need go no further than the Department of Justice’s devastating Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, released last March. While the report’s exploration of systematic racial bias in the Ferguson […]