Policy memos, studies, and columns spanning domestic politics in the US, international relations, and diplomacy studies. This section also includes research on government, political organizing, social policy, and economics (including macroeconomics, climate economics, and finance).
Politics and Economics
This research investigates policy and procedural recommendations (PPRs) in New York City governance using PCA cluster analysis and natural language processing (NLP).
Politics and Economics
This policy paper explores the urgent issue of maternal mental health in Georgia, with a focus on House Bill 649 and its potential to improve outcomes for mothers experiencing Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs).
Politics and Economics
Debt is a foundational aspect of modern society, facilitating economic growth and development initiatives. This paper seeks to understand the issue of the global debt crisis through a philosophical lens, examining its moral dimensions, power dynamics, and implications for global interdependence.
Politics and Economics
A comparative analysis of UK immigration policy from 2022–2025, this article reveals how both Conservative and Labour governments have embraced punitive, securitized approaches that criminalize asylum seekers under the guise of fairness and security.
Politics and Economics
This paper analyzes NYC’s IDNYC-MOIA partnership through a principal-agent lens, revealing inefficiencies and proposing reforms—like increased communication and agency consolidation—to better serve immigrant communities.
Urbanism
A comparative history of Minneapolis’s Skyway and Montreal’s RÉSO shows how transit integration, planning priorities, and public-private dynamics shaped two distinct models of climate-controlled pedestrian systems.
Politics and Economics
In an era where cities shoulder an increasing responsibility for immigrant service provision, local agency funding and monitoring reveals as much about democratic accountability as congressional oversight patterns.
Politics and Economics
This paper argues that in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve’s lender of last resort (LOLR) policy did discretionarily benefit certain financial institutions at the expense of others.
Politics and Economics
Using the 2011 Somalia famine as a case study, this essay explores the benefits and risks of migration, providing an overview of the famine and analyzing its implications for affected societies.
Politics and Economics
This legislative summary and analysis of the Laken Riley Act (S.5) from the 119th Congress provides a general overview and quick dive into the language and implications of this new immigration-focused Senate bill.
Politics and Economics
This page tracks and documents the ongoing executive orders (EOs) from the Trump Administraiton that impact immigration, migration, and human rights. This page will be updated regularly with new EOs at the bottom (chronologically) and older EOs at the top.
Politics and Economics
Using renewable energy and petroleum consumption data from 35 European countries from 2010-2019, this paper finds that increasing renewable energy consumption increases life expectancy; at the same time growth in renewable energy consumption negatively impacts GDP per capita growth.