The United States has the highest incarcerated population in the world, with 2.1 million Americans behind bars. Of the imprisoned adults, 54% have one or more minor children, representing 2.7 million or 1 in 28 children with an incarcerated parent. These children often suffer significant adverse effects from parental incarceration, including financial hardship, housing instability, […]
Tiffany You is an 11th-grade student at Godolphin and Latymer School in London. Passionate about international relations, racial inequality, and education equity, she is the co-founder of a nonprofit that aims to support and encourage underprivileged children in their literacy education and also started a podcast that discusses political affairs. Tiffany is also an avid […]
Why don’t we start by talking a little bit about Learning Equality and your products? After working as an intern with Khan Academy, a colleague and I had the idea of bringing the Khan Academy experience offline using a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer to serve the half of the world without access to the Internet. […]
Aleicia Zhu is a student at Biotechnology High School who edits the school newspaper and reports on economic news. Outside of school, she heads social enterprises and edits Guide to American Business. She is interested in health economics and business research. Helena Tadros is a student at Biotechnology High School with an affinity for medicine, […]
September 4, 2021 Ty Kushi Ty Kushi is a Senior at Santa Monica High School, where he leads the Samohi Forum Club and the Samohi Heal the Bay club. His passions include anthropology, archaeology, and cultural resource management. The history of Native Americans is incredibly long and significant, dating thousands of years and persisting after […]
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is Professor of Law at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia. He has been featured extensively in law reviews and is the author of The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement, which was honored as the […]
The last issue of 2020 explores perspectives in criminal justice outside of the reform/status quo binary. This issue, led by Maanas Sharma, includes essays, interviews, art, and poetry advocating for transformative changes to our carceral system. From abolition to utilitarianism, and AI to protest, this publication is sure to have something that interests you. Read […]
Iyana Trotman is a freshman at Wake Forest University. She was a champion policy debater for North Star Academy in Newark, NJ, where she focused on critical theory and antiblackness, and currently debates for Wake Forest. Content Warning: This poem includes descriptions of violence and racial slurs. today i asked myself, “have i been saying […]
You. Me. Us. Maanas Sharma, Adam Ashley, and Tarina Ahuja Policy Prison Reforms for Menstrual Equity: A Public Health Policy from the Greater Good Initiative Ethan Johanson, Olivia DiGiulio, and Raiya Nathan Representation Matters: The Advisory Committee Representation Enhancement Act Valeria Orozco and Catherine Kane Prison and Health Equity Standards Act: A Civil Rights Policy […]
Even so, Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights have been expanding. Unless Israel were to unilaterally withdraw its citizens from its settlements, as it did in the Gaza Strip and North Samaria in 2005, the logistical capacity of the two-state solution will continue to become increasingly improbable. This is […]
February 12, 2021 Student Editorial Board Talia Wilcox is a Staff Writer at the Journal of Interdisciplinary Public Policy. She is a senior at Ventura High School and will be attending Tufts University in the fall of 2021. At VHS, she plays violin in the honors orchestra and varsity tennis. Talia is a passionate social […]
Nafis Hasan is a Bangladeshi Postdoctoral Scholar at Tufts University studying brain tumors. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Science for the People editorial collective. Rebecca Orrison is a co-convener of the Science for the People Climate Change Working Group. Locally she is engaged with climate activism, including the […]
The way that this ought to come to fruition is through a collective defense treaty amongst like-minded Indo-Pacific states. The alliance should enshrine the principle of ‘casus foederis,’ which in diplomatic terms describes “an attack on one is an attack on all.” On top of this, it is critical that the articles of the agreement […]
The lack of consequences is not surprising when it comes to international space law. Space exploration has been an international endeavor since the 1950s, originally as a competition between countries. Now, however, it’s been unified in an understanding that space is for all people, and is to be used for the benefit of humanity through […]
