After another devastating wildfire year in the West, the Biden administration has a plan to ramp up forest thinning and prescribed burns. Two foresters explain why these projects are so important.
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The 2021 child tax credit expansion helped lift millions of families with children out of hunger. After those payments ended in December 2021, those families may again face food insufficiency.
Proponents of using the child tax credit to alleviate poverty need to reach an agreement with those who insist that it must encourage low-income parents to work.
A legal scholar explains what the ruling means for other vaccine mandates and the government’s ability to protect public health.
The court appears split over the future of vaccination mandates, with conservative justices skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to enforce requirements.
Rioters at the Capitol represented a ‘dagger against the throat’ of American democracy, President Biden said in an address laden with imagery.
Senator Joe Manchin’s position on Build Back Better balances delivering for people in his state while not offending their social conservatism, writes a scholar of Appalachian politics.
The Biden administration intends to distribute an additional 500 million at-home rapid COVID tests starting in January.
It will cost tens of billions of dollars to find and remove all the lead service lines that deliver water to US homes and schools. A public health expert explains why he sees it as money well spent.
Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
Diaries, visitor logs, handwritten notes and speech drafts are among the records Donald Trump has tried to keep from a Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot of Jan. 6.
States have widely different track records on expanding broadband internet access. Here are the ones that could struggle to handle the federal funds coming their way.
Should the U.S. help low-income households afford water service, as it does with heating and groceries? Chile does. An economist explains how it works there and how it could work here.
Violence in Ethiopia could cause ripples across the Horn of Africa, destabilizing the region.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act designates broadband internet access as an essential service and targets billions of dollars to close the digital divide.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.
An expert on organic agriculture argues that the US is missing an economic and environmental opportunity by not working to scale up organic production.
The Biden administration is proposing a big increase in offshore wind power. A former state official explains how regulators find the best sites and balance competing interests.
The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.
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Tony Walker é um amigo do The Conversation.Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Senior Counsellor and Professor Emeritus of Practice in Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs, American University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Provost Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
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Professor & Greenbaum/Ferguson/NJAR Endowed Chair in Real Estate Policy, Monmouth University
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