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  • The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: What is it, and What Can Be Done?

    The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: What is it, and What Can Be Done?

    Leisha Goel is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a first-year MPP student. Over the last 20 years, the number of juveniles placed in the juvenile justice system has decreased amidst calls for reforming the system, yet the number of young girls in the system over the same time period has only increased.…

  • In order to combat climate change, the United States must look to expand its global nuclear infrastructure

    In order to combat climate change, the United States must look to expand its global nuclear infrastructure

    Giovanni Liguori is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a first-year MPP student. Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to our planet as we know it, and the threat is only escalating. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report emphasized that climate change is “widespread, rapid, and intensifying,” so much so…

  • Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap Through the Build Back Better Act

    Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap Through the Build Back Better Act

    Andres De La Torre is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a first-year MPP student. The following is an op-ed and does not necessarily reflect the views of Policy Perspectives or the Trachtenberg school. Much Congressional debate this past year has centered around President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a monumental three-part…

  • Promoting Fentanyl Test Strips Could be a Vital Tool In Combating the Opioid Epidemic

    Promoting Fentanyl Test Strips Could be a Vital Tool In Combating the Opioid Epidemic

    Ryan Greenstein is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a first-year MPA student. In October 2017, the Acting Health and Human Services Secretary declared the opioid epidemic in the United States to be a public health emergency. The move was widely applauded as a savvy method for combating stigma and increasing awareness of…

  • GW WonkCast S6E2: How the Government Works – Electoral Systems and Partisanship in the 21st Century

    Politicians in America are selected through democratic elections, but how do these elections work? What are the consequences of our electoral system, and do other countries do it better? This week WonkCast host William Somes is joined by Verena Wingerter, an International Affairs and Cybersecurity student on exchange from the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.…