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Panelists on a stage during a recent about whether the United States still needs race-based affirmative action.

Politics+Society

Does the U.S. still need affirmative action?

Published Nov 22, 2023

Experts deliberated the pros and cons of race-based affirmative action in a debate open to the public hosted by Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute

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Congressional briefing

Studying the healing power of psychedelics

Published Nov 21, 2023

JHU Congressional Briefing panelists explain how the controlled substances could transform mental health treatment

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Hopkins in D.C.

Leading health policy scholar joins JHU

Published Nov 16, 2023

Melinda Buntin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics, will lead a newly established Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling

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Democracy

Unequal civic opportunity in the U.S.

Published Nov 13, 2023

Civic opportunity decreases as poverty levels increase, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute

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Q+A

Is panda diplomacy over?

Published Nov 8, 2023

For the first time in over 50 years, the panda enclosure at the National Zoo will be empty. What does that mean for U.S.-China relations?

Rachel Stevenson

Changemakers

Rachel Stevenson advocates for nursing education

Published Nov 8, 2023

Stevenson educates members of Congress about the issues affecting current and future nurses

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Democracy+Politics

New conservative principles for building trust in elections

Published Nov 8, 2023

Principles released with new Gallup poll that shows wide partisan gaps in electoral confidence

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Democracy+Politics

Report: Political violence imperils U.S. democracy

Published Nov 7, 2023

Experts from around the globe express concern for the future of U.S. electoral processes

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3 Questions

Offshore wind project headwinds threaten Biden's clean energy goals

Published Nov 6, 2023

Structural engineer Ben Schafer says that despite recent cancellation of two major projects, the future remains bright for offshore wind energy

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Hopkins in D.C.

Search for inaugural School of Government and Policy dean begins

Published Nov 2, 2023

The search committee will be chaired by Provost Ray Jayawardhana