Democracy

Giving Compass’ Take: • Hanna Hoover, at SSRN, provides an in-depth analysis of how reinstating civil rights among formerly incarcerated individuals reduces the likelihood of recidivism. • How can we…

Afghanistan has received enormous amounts of foreign aid over the years, but despite the investment of funds and various efforts to build state capacity, the government quickly fell to the…

Giving Compass’ Take: • A 2021 report at Independent Sector slides philanthropy under the microscope, investigating U.S. citizens’ current state of trust in nonprofits. • Why is it important to…

Cyberspace and online platforms, and their underpinning digital technologies, have played a central role in economies and societies becoming more reliant on Information and Communication Technology. This has many implications…

You successfully led Liberia through the Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016 — helping stop the disease within your country and preventing its spread beyond West Africa. What advice do…

Over the last year, our public interest technology team at New America interviewed people working in and around governments across the country. The same resonant themes emerged again and again.…

Homeownership is often viewed as the entree to the American dream and the gateway to intergenerational wealth. However, this pathway is often less achievable for Black Americans who post a…

A new study catalogs how environmental policies on deforestation, along with forest fires and drought, have affected plant and animal diversity in the Amazon rainforest. For the study in Nature, researchers…

As our second pandemic Labor Day approaches, Black worker leaders are determined to never again bear the brunt of a national crisis as they have under Covid. The latest horror:…

Nora worked the fields outside Texas prisons for nearly three years. But she didn’t learn much about tending crops. There weren’t any growing in the empty fields where the women…

Statistics-packed spreadsheets and lengthy, jargon-filled reports can be enough to make anybody feel dizzy. It’s natural. That makes it the responsibility for those of us involved in government and its…

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing threats facing Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people in the housing market. Before the pandemic, these groups were more likely to experience housing instability, housing cost burdens,…