The Supreme Court Upheaval: Analysis Across the Political Spectrum
The process has added yet more fuel to partisan rifts in the country, generating accusations of hypocrisy and reckless partisanship while raising important questions: Who are President Trump’s likely nominees? Is this nomination process unprecedented? How might a conservatively-skewed court influence key issues like abortion rights and healthcare?
Is Climate Change Responsible for This Season's Wildfires?
Though not quite the same as a nuclear meltdown, we are similarly unprepared to answer key questions about the crisis: What are the health impacts of exposure to this air? What are the long-term effects of fires in forest land that shouldn’t typically burn? And above all, to what degree is human activity, via climate change or other mechanisms, responsible for such natural disasters?
Are the Police Systemically Racist?
A preponderance of evidence (cited on the left and right) confirms that systemic racism is at play in policing in the United States. However, insufficient data collection on police encounters makes it difficult to understand how, where, and to what degree it is influencing outcomes. Still, there are several areas of agreement where policy changes can be enacted while building a comprehensive, national dataset on policing to fully address the problem of systemic racism in policing.