The English monolingual hegemony in American educational and economic institutions raises barriers for non-fluent English speakers, known as Limited English Proficiency (LEP) speakers. This article ...

President Vladimir Putin introduced a series of amendments to the Russian Constitution that will dramatically enhance the power of the presidency. His reforms will increase ...

A sight very common in India, especially in rural areas and among low-income communities, is the public celebration of the rite of passage at menarche, ...

This article shows how incentives for local officials that you can affect – rather than subconscious biases of largely well-meaning police officers you cannot affect ...

COVID-19 has had a disparate impact on different racial and ethnic groups throughout the United States. In Allentown, Pennsylvania, the state’s third largest city, the ...

The spread of the novel coronavirus has further exposed the digital divide, putting an emphasis on moving work and school online. The digital divide is ...

Women of color are more likely to be working essential jobs without PPE, raising children who are unable to attend schooling by computer, or incarcerated ...

This article reviews theories on why some terrorist groups adopt the tactic and gives special attention to groups that could have, but did not, adopt ...

Socially, many societies are not ready to accept sex in exchange for payment. While proponents of criminal penalties to deter prostitution cite concerns with human ...

Welcome to GPPR’s COVID blog! Here, you’ll find our insights based on our experiences and policy interests. Enjoy, and submit your post here. COVID-19 and ...

While the worst effects of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States have been relatively concentrated in a handful of cities and states, early indicators ...

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Welcome to GPPR’s first blog on the coronavirus pandemic. As students everywhere transition to virtual learning and move off campus, we, especially us policy students, ...

Introduction As the world continues to advance technologically, more and more jobs become susceptible to automation, with machines completing tasks formerly undertaken by people on ...

Sports franchises hold a sizeable power dynamic over the municipalities that host them. This disparity allows franchises and leagues to continually extract large tax breaks ...

The United States is one of two countries that does not provide any sort of national paid leave. Currently, only 19% of U.S. workers have ...

On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military ordered a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed a high-profile Iranian commander, Maj.Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who ...

Introduction The global landscape for internet censorship is evolving; countries are increasingly regulating and monitoring online traffic that traverses networks located within their borders. Mainstream ...

In recent years, Morocco has put in place the right frameworks for mobilizing rural communities to advance the nation’s sustainable development goals, yet it falls ...

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It’s no secret that gains from the robust economic recovery following the Great Recession have disproportionately gone to a small number of areas in the ...

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From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. military conducted 67 nuclear weapon tests in the northern part of the Marshall Islands. Of these, 23 were conducted ...