Tag: Policy
Colorado’s fentanyl criminalization bill won’t solve the opioid epidemic, say the...
Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation...
Trump’s executive orders can make change – but are limited and...
Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University
Before his inauguration, Donald Trump promised to issue a total of 100 or so executive...
Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn’t...
Rockford Weitz, Tufts University
For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition,...
5 ways Biden can help rural America thrive and bridge the...
Ann Eisenberg, University of South Carolina; Jessica A. Shoemaker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Lisa R. Pruitt, University of California, Davis
It’s no secret that rural...
5 years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to...
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Dolf Gielen, Colorado School of Mines
Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement – the...
Economic policies can induce people to quarantine safely during the pandemic
Roberto Chang, Rutgers University and Andrés Velasco, London School of Economics and Political Science
Recent economic proposals to deal with COVID-19, like those summarized by...
Los Angeles is far from ending homelessness – but other American...
Brenda Wiewel, University of Southern California
Los Angeles became ground zero for America’s homelessness crisis after President Donald Trump visited the city on Sept. 17.
“We...
Why the IRS is legally required to give Congress Trump’s tax...
Philip Hackney, University of Pittsburgh
Is the IRS required to hand over the president’s tax returns if Congress asks?
According to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the...