The Future of the Voting Rights Act
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On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its much-an
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Events
Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ is proud to serve as a gathering place for events—both online and in-person—to exchange ideas, spotlight new research, and engage with diverse perspectives. Every year, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s events bring together thousands of people across sectors and disciplines to help shape policy discussions and drive solutions to real-world challenges.
The House at the End of the Road
In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned blac
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CA EVENT: Was Pete Wilson Right?
Pete Wilson’s California wasn’t too different from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. The state’s education system lagged behind the rest of the count
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Is Asia on the Rise?
Many of America’s top foreign policy scholars and pundits have predicted, even warned of Asia’s imminent rise as the leading economic po
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Iran: What Matters Now?
On June 26, Sir Richard Dalton, the former UK ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran and an associate fellow with the Middle East &
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The End of Spectrum ‘Scarcity’
As the FCC begins its year-long process to recommend a National Broadband Plan, one starting point is to unlock publicly-owned assets th
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The Jobless Recovery
Despite ubiquitous talk of “green shoots,” America’s unemployment crisis is worse than most pundits and politicians care to acknowledge,
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Iran’s Election
On June 22, 2009 Ken Ballen, Steve Clemons, Flynt Leverett, Afshin Molavi, and Nader Mousavizadeh came together with Nicholas Sch
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CA EVENT: California v 2.0
Faced with a deepening budget crisis and a paralyzed political system, a growing number of Californians have concluded that their govern
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Savings, Responsibility, and Opportunity in America
When President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill in 1996, he changed the moral debate over poverty by linking benefits to work. Howeve
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