With concerns about teenagers spending too much time on their phones, educators and parents have pushed to keep them out of classrooms. Florida adopted the first U.S. school cellphone ban in May 2023.

Professor Samantha Power led the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from May of 2021 to January of 2025. Last week at the Harvard Center for International Development’s flagship annual ...

Since the start of the war with Iran, the average cost of gasoline per gallon in the United States has increased by more than 50%, reaching $4.50 as of May 12, 2026. On May 11, President Trump ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act through a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The Court ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which ...

This policy brief outlines a global framework for forced labor import bans (FLIBs) as a key tool to address forced labor in international supply chains. Despite legal prohibitions, forced labor ...

For AI regulation to genuinely serve human rights, three conditions must be met simultaneously. First, there must be governance reach: the practical capacity to make and enforce rules over the main ...

On April 1, President Trump made his first formal public address about the United States’ military actions in Iran. His speech came over a month after the United States and Israel sent missiles and ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how governments operate, how workers do their jobs, and how citizens interact with public institutions. But while the technology is advancing quickly, the ...

According to Iranian experts, former activists, and prisoners, key issues—gender-based oppression, mass killings, and prison abuses—paint a somber picture of the human rights crisis unfolding today in ...

Protest movements often rely on young people. If a nonviolent campaign has extensive youth participation, it’s over twice as likely to succeed than campaigns with limited youth participation, ...

The Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome (Jay) Powell has raised questions about the boundary between legitimate oversight and political interference in monetary ...

We live in a world with many global problems, but no global government. The countries of the world try to handle their common problems through governance without government, or what we call global ...