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Justice for…a Few: Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System of the United States

04.3.24

We need a system that protects minorities from being victims of unpunished crime and from criminalization. We must become a society that no longer takes skin color as a reason to justify the unjustifiable.

Fairness and Justice

Reproductive Rights Extend to Sexual Education As Well

03.25.24

Comprehensive sexual education empowers youth to exercise their sexual rights and allows for safer sexual practices in the future.

Health

Interview with Niall Ferguson: U.S.-China Relations

03.25.24

On February 28, 2024, HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Nikolas Neos spoke with Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, about U.S.-China relations.

International Relations and Security

While House Republicans Sleep

03.21.24

Another American withdrawal from the world stage is threatening to imbalance the global order and throw Europe into a new age of darkness.

International Relations and Security

George Orwell’s Dystopian World is Coming to Life and the European AI Act Will Not Stop It: The Collection of Emotional Data by AI

03.9.24

As AI-based emotion recognition systems proliferate with little regulation, our feelings are transformed into data that can manipulate us, threatening a dystopian future where our mental privacy no longer exists.

Science, Technology and Data

Medicare Part B as in Biologic: A Descriptive Analysis of Medicare Part B Drug Spending and Policy Analysis Over the Last Decade

03.3.24

Without focused reform, Medicare Part B drug spending will continue to grow at a faster rate than any other section in Medicare.

Business and Regulation

A New Draft for America? A Service Year by Young Americans Would Protect America and Maybe Heal It Along the Way

02.25.24

The idea of a service year for young Americans has been floated around for decades but with no substantive action. A definitive first step to push young Americans in a year of service starts with encouraging colleges to require them before matriculation or to weigh the experience heavily in admissions decisions.

Democracy and Governance

Racial Disparity in Disaster Response in the United States: A Case Study of Aid Under FEMA

02.9.24

Natural disasters strike Americans indiscriminately; unfortunately, federal disaster relief doesn’t reach them the same way.

Cities and Communities

Stable Signatures: An Effective Route to Regulating AI-Generated Child Sex Abuse Material 

02.5.24

In fall 2023, more than 20 young girls in a small town in southern Spain were targets of naked deep-fake images. Stable signatures may provide a solution.

Business and Regulation

Inclusive Education for a More Compassionate Future

01.24.24

In a country celebrated for being a melting pot, our public school curriculum should be racially, ethnically, and culturally inclusive.

Education, Training and Labor

The Opioid Challenge: Rethinking US Policy for National Security

01.9.24

Amidst the gravest drug crisis in American history, the United States grapples with an incomprehensible death toll exceeding 100,000 fentanyl overdoses in 2021 alone. New foreign policy is needed to secure the border and save lives.

International Relations and Security

Interview with Harvard Professor Graham Allison: U.S.–China Relations

12.19.23

On December 5, 2023, Senior Editor Nikolas Neos spoke with Harvard Professor Graham Allison about US-China relations and what the rising tension between the two countries means for both of them.

International Relations and Security

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