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  • COVID-19 and Structural Racism: How Policies Can Address Disparities

    COVID-19 and Structural Racism: How Policies Can Address Disparities

    Catherine Kaufman is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a second-year MPA student. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve heard one phrase over and over again: we’re all in this together. But systemic disparities highlighted in the ongoing racial justice movement make it clear that COVID-19 and the ensuing economic hardships affect some communities…

  • Banning TikTok: The Future of U.S. Technology Policy

    Banning TikTok: The Future of U.S. Technology Policy

    Madison Grady is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a second-year MPP student. This is a follow-up to my previously published data privacy article, here.  The popular Generation Z app, TikTok, is set to define technology policy as we know it. The app allows users to create short videos set to music or…

  • Modern Monetary Theory: Can the U.S. Print its way to Prosperity?

    Modern Monetary Theory: Can the U.S. Print its way to Prosperity?

    John Jacobs is an MPP graduate student, specializing in regulatory policy. The following is an op-ed and does not necessarily reflect the views of Policy Perspectives or the Trachtenberg school. Over budget and ahead of schedule, the U.S. federal debt surpassed $20 trillion at the end of June, making it larger than the total national…

  • Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Gender Equality in the U.S.

    Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Gender Equality in the U.S.

    Jenny Hyde is a 2020 graduate of George Washington University with a Masters in Public Policy with a concentration in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Over much of the past year, we have watched COVID-19 expose systemic weakness across our country. The novel coronavirus has put a serious strain on everything from our healthcare system…

  • The Politics of Public Health: What Are Mandated Mask Policies, and Why Are They Controversial?

    The Politics of Public Health: What Are Mandated Mask Policies, and Why Are They Controversial?

    Olivia Shaffett is an MPA Staff Writer for Brief Policy Perspectives It is both a strange and frightening experience to watch the effects of an unforeseen pandemic unfold across the United States of America, and the reactions to this public health crisis are as shocking as the devastating casualties. In spite of staggering infection numbers, a…