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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.