News & Stories Breadcrumb Home All Feature Stories Research News & Awards Q&A Community Profiles Oct 09, 2023 SPIA Reacts: Crisis in the Middle East Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, the founding director of SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, has been teaching on issues of state, self… Sep 15, 2023 ‘We Need Help to Get Ahead’ In 2015, Kathryn Edin, the William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and co-director of SPIA’s Center for Research on Child and… Sep 06, 2023 Whose CO2 is it Anyway? Seema Jayachandran’s Research Explores Alternate Mitigation Efforts As CO2 emissions continue to climb globally, Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Research Program… Aug 15, 2023 SPIA Reacts: Afghanistan Under Two Years of Taliban Rule August 15, 2023, marks a grim two-year anniversary: that of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. Adela Raz, director of SPIA’s Afghanistan Policy… Aug 07, 2023 SPIA Reacts: The United States’ Credit Rating Takes a Hit Last week, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA+. The agency cited the recent standoff over raising the country’s… Aug 01, 2023 Alyssa Sharkey Keeps a Finger on the Pulse of Health Equity Amid Historic Report For the first time, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the United Nations Population Fund have produced a joint report analyzing global… Jun 09, 2023 SPIA Reacts: The Indictment of a Former President Former President Donald Trump’s announcement that he has been indicted is likely to have significant and far-reaching legal and political… Mar 28, 2023 SPIA Reacts: Bank Bailouts – No Bank Is Too Small to Matter The Silicon Valley Bank bailout was necessary. But was it timely or fair? If the intervention itself was timely, the decision to intervene was by all… Feb 02, 2023 SPIA Reacts: What Policymakers Can Do Now to Drive Meaningful Change Following the Police Killing of Tyre Nichols Following the killing of Tyre Nichols, many across the country are again asking themselves ‘why’? Why do these incidents continue to happen? Despite… Jan 09, 2023 SPIA Reacts: Implications of the Taliban's Decision to Ban Women and Girls From Attending School in Afghanistan Late last December, the Taliban announced plans to ban women from attending universities and girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, one of the… Nov 09, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Insights on the Implications of the U.S. Midterm Elections There’s still much to unpack about what Election Day and the campaigns that preceded it mean for the U.S. election process, continued attempts to… Oct 11, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Protests in Iran More than three weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police, deadly anti-government protests continue across… Sep 15, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Have Migrants Become 'Political Pawns'? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14, causing confusion on the Massachusetts island. A day… Aug 24, 2022 “Young, Gifted and Diverse” — Q&A with the Authors Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a representative sample of over a… Jun 24, 2022 Roe V. Wade Is Overturned Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that protected women’s rights to choose an abortion. The decision… Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
