Northern America

Though Pete Buttigieg is often cast as an LGBTQ+ icon, his tenure in South Bend and a close look at his platform say otherwise.

I spent most of my childhood skateboarding next to a covered landfill near my home in San José, California. From the late-1800s to the mid-1900s, a brick company mined clay along the nearby creek where millions of bricks were made that were used to build San Francisco’s skyline – until it was closed and used […]

Investment in space is the key to American prosperity, diplomacy and security. The Biden administration should continue support for the Space Force and the private space sector.

Wisconsin’s political history has no shortage of embarrassments, from Joseph McCarthy to modern Republican demagogues like Scott Walker and Reince Priebus. Ron Johnson has contributed to that legacy of shame with gusto.

What should a progressive U.S. foreign policy look like? Is such a thing even possible? Panelists sought to answer this and more in the first Progressive Caucus event of the Fall 2020 semester.

Photo: President-elect Joe Biden speaking at Harvard Kennedy School in 2014. Photo credit: AP   Michael Johns was joined by Dr. Daniel Pipes to discuss the future of United States foreign policy in the Middle East under the Biden administration. Dr. Pipes holds both an A.B. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and taught at the […]

Realizing the aspirations of Brown requires addressing the panoply of issues perpetuating racial and class divides. We can’t solve segregation at the school district level. Society has to get involved.

Despite the U.S. being one of the world’s wealthiest countries, child poverty is a dire problem – and during COVID, it’s only getting worse. That’s why the Biden campaign recently took the bold step of proposing the most pro-child policy reform in recent American history. Even before COVID-19, child poverty was much higher in the […]

Contact tracing in the US is at a critical inflection point. In the early days when COVID-19 first arrived in the US, when federal resources should have been mobilized to bolster our defenses against the virus, the response to the emerging pandemic became a political fight, rather than a public health campaign. The Trump Administration’s […]

When it comes to securing US elections against foreign interference, training humans may be the best investment.

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN YANG This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. I’m proud of the fact that in some ways my own background is a microcosm of the complexity of the Asian American experience. AAPR: Can you briefly introduce yourself and your organization? YANG: My name is […]

INTERVIEW WITH MEGAN MING FRANCIS This piece was published in the 30th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. The problems that impact Black people are the same structures that also oppress Asian Americans. This whole pact that certain Asian Americans believe will set them free, that this proximity and getting closer to Whiteness and by […]