Building the Appetite for Food Policy in National Politics
By Fiona McBride This year’s midterm elections reached a fever pitch unlike many midterms before, producing the highest voter turnout since 1966 and excruciatingly close […]
Politics
Aligning the Interests of Private Tech and the Public to Reduce Political Polarization
By Henriette Ruhrmann Technological progress, from the development of an alphabet to live streaming, has always shaped the way we communicate our private thoughts in […]
Ensuring Access to Election Day for All
By Annie McDonald Amidst the 2018 midterm elections, familiar calls to designate Election Day as a federal holiday are ringing out once again. One of […]
2018 BPPJ Election Coverage
Students at the Goldman School of Public Policy — like many others — are closely following the 2018 Elections. The results from the November 6th […]
The dangers of false equivalence in sexual assault
By Tsuyoshi Onda By the time the 11 white, male Republican senators of the Senate Judiciary Committee employed a special prosecutor to question Dr. Christine Blasey […]
Brett Kavanaugh Has Shown Himself Unfit to Serve and the Patriarchy Doesn’t Care
Editor’s Note: This piece is one of two responses to the confirmation proceedings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court published today on the […]
The Constitutionalist Case for Brett Kavanaugh to Withdraw His Nomination
Editor’s Note: This piece is one of two responses to the confirmation proceedings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. It assesses the implications […]
Fall 2018 Journal: Can We Build a Better Society with Publicly Financed Elections?
By Brooke Barron Edited by Emory Wolf Facing the consequences of persistent societal inequalities, some state and city governments are looking to the public financing […]
Guns, Shootings, and Regulation: Ways to Stop the Cycle of Mass Violence
By Michael Degroff-Kirchgraber The first few days after a mass shooting in the United States are full of conversations about ways to prevent the next […]
Brexit, Trump, Europe: What Happened to Populism?
By Andreas Sampson Geroski It was very easy to dub 2016 as the year of populism after Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Their […]