Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Jennifer Doherty-Bigara US foreign assistance has been a divisive issue among politicians, academics, and voters. The tension surrounding aid to developing countries partly arises from a perception problem and partly from differing opinions about what its role is and should be. For some, it is a way to end poverty, for others simply a […]
The year 2013 certainly provided no shortage of fodder for policy wonks. We faced off over the debt limit and government shutdown, scraped together a budget deal, alternatively debated and ignored immigration reform, witnessed the shaky rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges, confronted the realities of our government’s surveillance in the name of […]