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Reproductive Rights Extend to Sexual Education As Well
03.25.24
Read MoreComprehensive sexual education empowers youth to exercise their sexual rights and allows for safer sexual practices in the future.
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International Relations and Security
While House Republicans Sleep
03.21.24
Read MoreAnother American withdrawal from the world stage is threatening to imbalance the global order and throw Europe into a new age of darkness.
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Social Policy
Statistical Invisibility and the Plight of India’s Sanitation Workers: A Policy Perspective
03.3.24
Read MoreAmidst the vast societal machinery that sustains India, sanitation workers operate as the unrecognized cogs essential to the public health system, yet they remain largely invisible within policy frameworks and legislative agendas.
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Interview with Niall Ferguson: U.S.-China Relations
03.25.24
On February 28, 2024, HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Nikolas Neos spoke with Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, about U.S.-China relations.
The Peruvian Book of Queerness: An Interview with Javier Ponce Gambirazio on Writing about Queer Experiences in Peru
03.3.24
Author Javier Ponce Gambriazio discusses writing about queer experiences in Peru.
Medicare Part B as in Biologic: A Descriptive Analysis of Medicare Part B Drug Spending and Policy Analysis Over the Last Decade
03.3.24
Without focused reform, Medicare Part B drug spending will continue to grow at a faster rate than any other section in Medicare.
Interview with David Beasley, Former Executive Director of the World Food Programme
02.20.24
On February 6, 2024, HKS Student Policy Review Senior Editor Ala’a Kolkaila spoke with David Beasley, the former Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP). The conversation focused mainly on food security and Beasley’s time at the WFP.
From the Margins: How Gender and Kitchens Got Sidetracked in the Energy Debate
02.9.24
Disproportionately affecting women, lack of access to clean fuels for cooking leads to 3.7 million untimely deaths annually from household air pollution.
Racial Disparity in Disaster Response in the United States: A Case Study of Aid Under FEMA
02.9.24
Natural disasters strike Americans indiscriminately; unfortunately, federal disaster relief doesn’t reach them the same way.
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