Medicaid is one of the largest social welfare programs in the United States. With over 70 million people enrolled, it covers 20 percent of the US population. Though the program .......
The number of college students across the nation who voted in the midterms doubled between 2014 and 2018. At Duke University, the voting rate was even higher – it jumped .......
In 2009, President Obama launched an initiative designed to use a community outreach approach to counter violent extremism. Ten years later, Professor David Schanzer, Director of the Triangle Center on .......
We discuss climate-related policy ideas with Billy Pizer, an expert in climate change policy, law and legislation. .......
New research shows forest fires are actually more harmful than we've previously thought. It's not just about the impact on the environment or on the economy, but also on human .......
Jacob Bachmeier serves in Montana’s House of Representatives. He was just 18 when he was elected. A classmate was his campaign manager. At the time of his election, he was .......
China is investing heavily in coal around the world, even going so far as to build the coal sector from scratch, in a variety of developing countries. Coal plants are .......
In a new intergovernmental report, scientists say a million species of plants and animals could go extinct due to climate change, many within our lifetimes. Duke University Professor Alexander Pfaff .......
According to USAID, only four percent of people in rural Zambia has access to power. A Duke University interdisciplinary team has spent the past academic year trying to get a .......
Research shows that working-class people almost never become politicians, but Carmen Castillo is both a hotel housekeeper and a Providence Rhode Island City Council member. Yet when Carmen first began .......
Recently, a man opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand leaving 50 dead and dozens more injured. The massacre was announced on the internet and streamed live on .......
Political satire isn't new, it's been with us throughout history, even Shakespeare's works were packed with political commentary. Lately, though, political news itself seems more like entertainment television. So how .......
Madeleine Albright served as the 64th U.S. Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton. In this episode of the Policy 360 podcast, she joins Sanford School of Public Policy Dean .......
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the One Belt, One Road Initiative. The massive infrastructure project aims to link countries along the old Silk Road routes with Europe. China .......
Venezuela is in the midst of a catastrophic economic crisis. According to Forbes, Venezuela’s yearly annual inflation reached 80,000% in 2018, up from 2,400% the year before. The hyperinflation was .......
With college basketball season in full swing and March Madness close approaching, the attention of the sports world is centered around student athletes. Yet despite the press brought to universities .......
What goes on behind the scenes in a government shutdown? In 1995, John Koskinen was deputy director of the federal Office of Management and Budget. President President Bill Clinton, a .......
Rich countries have a variety of reasons to give money to poorer countries. In this episode of Policy 360, Sarah Bermeo discusses what the U.S. foreign aid policy strategy is .......
Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy welcomed Mitch Prinstein the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and the director of clinical psychology at the University of North .......
Adriana Figueroa and Maggie Loredo's stories illuminate the compelling historical, ethical, and political challenges unfolding today on the U.S. Mexican border. Both women were born in Mexico and came to .......
In recent years, states across the country have significantly expanded access to prekindergarten and there have been proposals at the federal level to fund prekindergarten across the country. Prekindergarten does .......
The so-called “migrant caravan” has grabbed worldwide headlines. Approximately 3,000 people are walking toward the Southern U.S. border from a variety of countries. The caravan appears to have originated in .......
Earlier this week, a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Eleven people died and there were multiple casualties. Authorities say the gunman made hateful, anti-Semitic .......
Sari Kaufman is a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. Her high school was the site of a horrific mass shooting on Valentines Day. Seventeen students .......
Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy faculty member Christina Gibson-Davis has compared wealth among families with children and the elderly. Who is doing better? "One would expect that elderly .......
Michael Sorrell is president of Paul Quinn College, and he has turned the historically black institution in Dallas into what he calls “an engine of social mobility.” He became president .......
Leaders in towns and cities affected by Hurricane Florence are attempting to get operations running again. Soon they will likely be thinking about how their communities can do things differently .......
Yemen is in the midst of civil war, a brutal conflict that has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the United Nations. By some estimates, 75 percent of .......
Kelly Brownell has stepped away from his role as dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy to launch a new World Food Policy Center at Duke. He talks with .......
It’s often said that one in 10 people on the planet is hungry, and that number is on the rise. Abigail Bennett is the lead author of a new report .......