Extractive industries are prone to corruption that undermines good governance, but a new report from Brookings' Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption initiative says these risks can be mitigated by using "TAP-plus"—a next-generation governance framework based on decades of scholarship and practice in transparency and accountability.
Last week, experts discussed the history, successes, and limitations of anti-corruption efforts and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on global anti-corruption initiatives. Watch the webinar.
President Trump has refused to expand his base, playing instead to a brand of populist conservatism that rests on solid support from the white working-class. But new data show that voters in this group under 40 are breaking ranks. William Galston discusses the implications.
William Gale examines wealth differences between Black and white households and explains that to close the gap, policy reform should aim to both redress injustices committed in the past and to provide equal opportunity for all today.
In a new e-book, Elaine Kamarck explains how presidential candidates have gone from a strategy of balancing the ticket to selecting a governing partner, which has increased the power of the vice presidential office. But the emergence of a different model for picking the vice president—one based on competence—is the sign of a fundamental change in an office that has long been the butt of jokes.
Congress's COVID-19 rescue plan is about to end.Sarah Binder spoke to VOX about how a polarized Congress managed to legislate nearly $3 trillion in a mere few weeks and, as the law expires, what dynamics might motivate further action.
How COVID-19 has magnified the digital divide.Nicol Turner Lee spoke with WNPR about how the lack of broadband in communities exacerbates existing disparities in education and economic opportunity.
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